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Macro Attractiveness and Micro Decisions in the Mutual Fund Industry
An Empirical Analysis
Av Gunnar Lang
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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This volume addresses the attractiveness of financial centers with a primary focus on the mutual fund industry. It uses different empirical analysis approaches in an attempt to disentangle the reasons for location attractiveness and in order to identify its influence on fund pricing. The presented …
Germany's 2005 Welfare Reform
Evaluating Key Characteristics with a Focus on Immigrants
Häftad, 2014
1128 kr
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In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called “Hartz IV reform”. This book evaluates key characteristics of the reform from a microeconometric perspective. It investigates whether a centralized or decentralized organization of welfare …
Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe
Legal and Economic Perspectives
Av Kai Hüschelrath, Heike Schweitzer
Inbunden, 2014
1002 kr
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Over the past fifteen years, the optimal enforcement of EU competition law has become a major concern. This book contains a unique collection of articles by lawyers and economists on current issues in the public and private enforcement of competition law. Public enforcement has been strengthened in …
Macro Attractiveness and Micro Decisions in the Mutual Fund Industry
An Empirical Analysis
Av Gunnar Lang
Häftad, 2016
569 kr
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This volume addresses the attractiveness of financial centers with a primary focus on the mutual fund industry. It uses different empirical analysis approaches in an attempt to disentangle the reasons for location attractiveness and in order to identify its influence on fund pricing. The presented …
Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe
Legal and Economic Perspectives
Av Kai Hüschelrath, Heike Schweitzer
Häftad, 2016
1002 kr
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Over the past fifteen years, the optimal enforcement of EU competition law has become a major concern. This book contains a unique collection of articles by lawyers and economists on current issues in the public and private enforcement of competition law. Public enforcement has been strengthened in …
What Hampers Part-Time Work?
An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective
Av Elke Wolf
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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This book contributes to clarify the conditions of jobs with shorter working hours and reckons the potential for increasing part-time employment in Germany. Two crucial obstacles of part-time employment are addressed: Firstly, the wage structure and its implications for labor supply, and secondly, …
Incomplete European Market for Financial Services
Av Paolo Cecchini, Friedrich Heinemann m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
551 kr
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Looking back over the last decade it can be said with some justification that sig nificant progress has been achieved on the way towards fully integrated financial markets in Europe. The 1993 Internal Market initiative and the Euro introduction in 1999/2002 constitute important milestones. The …
Empirical Modeling of the Economy and the Environment
Av Christoph Böhringer, Andreas Löschel
Häftad, 2003
1128 kr
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ZhongXiang Zhang (East-West Center, Honolulu) uses a global model based on marginal abatement cost curves for 12 world regions to estimate the contributions of the three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, i. e. emissions trading, joint implementation, and the clean development …
Employment Impacts of Cleaner Production
Av Klaus Rennings, Thomas Zwick
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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This book covers a highly relevant but clearly under-researched topic - the impact of environmental innovations on employment on the fmn level. While the impact of innovations on employment has been analysed empirically in several studies, only few studies have specifically analysed innovations …
Internationalisation of Young High-Tech Firms
An Empirical Analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
Av Oliver Bürgel, Andreas Fier m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1128 kr
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There is now a certain tradition of Anglo-German comparative research on new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Two of the most influential studies in this area have both been sponsored by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of In dustrial Society (AGF). Starting in 1977, the first AGF project …
Foreign Exchange Intervention as a Monetary Policy Instrument
Evidence for Inflation Targeting Countries
Av Felix Hüfner
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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Foreign exchange intervention is frequently being used by central banks in countries which have a floating exchange rate. Most theoretical monetary policy models, however, do not take this phenomenon into account. This book contributes to close this gap between theory and practice by interpreting …
Economic Foundation of Asset Price Processes
Häftad, 2004
1128 kr
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In this book the relation between the characteristics of investors' preferences and expectations and equilibrium asset price processes are analysed. It is shown that declining elasticity of the pricing kernel can lead to positive serial correlation of short term asset returns and negative serial …
Lead Markets for Environmental Innovations
Av Klaus Jacob, Marian Beise m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1128 kr
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Some countries are earlier than others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations. Often, the leadership in technological development is accompanied by a leadership in environmental policy. The book provides an analysis of lead markets for innovations such as fuel cells, …
Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment
An Empirical Study
Av Frank Reize
Häftad, 2004
569 kr
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This doctoral dissertation, submitted to the University of Mannheim, was written during my employment as a research fellow at the Zentrum fiir Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research) in Mann- heim. My work profited very much from the fruitful environment …
Climate Change Policy and Global Trade
Av Christoph Böhringer, Andreas Löschel
Häftad, 2004
1098 kr
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This book contains a synthesis of the results of the project "Climate Change Policy and Global Trade" financed by the European Commission under the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development programme within the Fifth Framework Programme (Contract N EVK2-CT-2000-00093). The project aimed at …
Man-Made Climate Change
Economic Aspects and Policy Options
Av Olav Hohmeyer, Klaus Rennings
Häftad, 1998
551 kr
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As the Kyoto conference of the parties on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change once again underscored, man-made climate change has become one of the major challenges to our generation and many generations to come. Since scientific evidence on climate change can be seen as …
Agglomeration, Growth, and Adjustment
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Regional Labor Markets in Germany
Häftad, 1998
569 kr
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It is dealt with disparities in employment growth, unemployment, and wages between regional labor markets in Germany. First, endogenous formation and growth of industry locations due to agglomeration economies is established as a basic source of disparity in employment. Then, spatial frictions and …
Climate Technology Strategies 1
Controlling Greenhouse Gases. Policy and Technology Options
Av Pantelis Capros, Leonidas Mantzos m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
1098 kr
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This book provides a synthesis of the energy-related results of the large scale project entitled "Climate Teclmology Strategy within Competitive Energy Markets" partly financed by the European Commission under the Non Nuclear Energy (JOULE III) EU-RTD programme (Contract JOS3-CT95-0008). Research …
Climate Technology Strategies 2
The Macro-Economic Cost and Benefit of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union
Av Pantelis Capros, Panagiotis Georgakopoulos m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
551 kr
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Climate technology becomes more and more relevant in international environmental policy negotiations. At the Kyoto conference binding emission reduction targets have been established for several regions of the world. The major challenge is how to realize these reduction goals with minimum costs …
Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies
Empirical Evidence for Poland During Transition
Häftad, 1999
1098 kr
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Most governments in today's market economies spend significant sums of money on labour market programmes. The declared aims of these programmes are to increase the re-employment chances of the unemployed. This book investigates which active labour market programmes in Poland are value for money and …
Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups
An Analysis for West Germany
Häftad, 1999
1128 kr
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This book investigates whether a lack of wage flexibility is at the root of the unemployment problem in West Germany. In the presence of a skill bias in labor demand, only the choice between higher wage inequality or higher unemployment rates seems to exist. Whether and in what way this line of …
Social Costs and Sustainable Mobility
Strategies and Experiences in Europe and the United States
Av Klaus Rennings, Olav Hohmeyer m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
551 kr
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Fair and efficient pricing has become increasingly important in international environmental and transport policy. Thus the valuation and internalization of social costs is now a crucial element within strategies towards sustainable mobility. The book provides methods and results from major European …
Germany’s Technological Performance
A Study on Behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Häftad, 2000
569 kr
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Maintaining the innovation capabilities of firms, employees and institutions is a key component for the generation of sustainable growth, employment, and high income in industrial societies. Gaining insights into the German innovation system and the institutional framework is as important to policy …
Internationalisation of British Start-up Companies in High-Technology Industries
Häftad, 2000
569 kr
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There are 17 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union which play an important role in economic life. Within this subset, increasing recognition is being given to "new technology-based ftrms. " 1 In the literature, different defmitions have been put forward to describe …
Innovation-Oriented Environmental Regulation
Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Analysis
Av J. Hemmelskamp, K. Rennings m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
1128 kr
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Innovation-oriented environmental regulation is extremely attractive for policy planners and decision makers, since it is expected that innovations can cut costs of environmental measures and overcome existing trade-offs between economic and ecological goals. The central question is, however, how …
Flexible Mechanisms for an Efficient Climate Policy
Cost Saving Policies and Business Opportunities
Av Karl L. Brockmann, Marcus Stronzik
Häftad, 2000
551 kr
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In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy instruments - such as emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development …
Endogenous Innovations and Knowledge Spillovers
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Häftad, 2000
569 kr
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The recent development of endogenous growth theories has renewed the in terest into the sources of productivity growth of the advanced industrialized economies. The basic advance of these models is that the evolution of tech nological progress is explained endogeneously within the economic model. …
Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
Av Michael Lechner, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Häftad, 2001
1098 kr
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Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. New improved econometric methods have been developed that will probably influence future empirical work in various other fields of economics as well. This volume …
Lead Markets
Country-Specific Success Factors of the Global Diffusion of Innovations
Av Marian Beise
Häftad, 2001
551 kr
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1. 1 Summary This thesis intends to answer three questions: First, what is a lead market; second, what constitutes a lead market, and third, how companies can harness lead markets to generate global innovations. Considering the international, cross-border diffu sion of innovations one can observe …
Effective Tax Burden in Europe
Current Situation, Past Developments and Simulations of Reforms
Av Otto H. Jacobs, Christoph Spengel
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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Our small book presents areport which has been prepared in the year 2000 for the Taxation and Custorns Union Directorate General of the European Commission, under contract no. T AXUD / 00 / 312. Some of the results form part of the report "Company Taxation in the Internal Market" of the Commission …
