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Externe Working Papers
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using (panel) cointegration techniques. The existence of cointegration between oil revenues, GDP and investment ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2014,
20 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 8079)
| Christian Dreger, Teymur Rahmani
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Workshop
Non-recourse project finance plays a major role in financing new infrastructure investment in many sectors, ranging from conventional and renewable energy to transportation, water, housing and other essential services. The seminar will explore the essentials of project and structured finance, how it differs from conventional corporate finance, and the basic elements of a project finance...
21.01.2015| Seabron Adamson, Tulane University and over 20 years experience in energy and finance industry
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Externe Working Papers
Background: The National Cohort (Nationale Kohorte = NaKo) will be one of the largest cohort studies in Europe to include intensive physical examinations and extensive information about the socio-demographic background and behavior of the subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and potential learning effects due to the panel structure of the data present challenges for researchers using ...
Berlin:
RatSWD,
2014,
14 S.
(RatSWD Working Paper Series ; 237)
| Hannes Kröger, Jürgen Schupp, Johann Behrens
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Externe Working Papers
Through an intertemporal budget constraint, jurisdictions may gain advantages in tax and spending competition by 'competing' on debt. While the existing spatial econometric literature focuses on tax and spending competition, very little is known about spatial interaction via public debt. This paper estimates the spatial interdependence of public debt amongGerman municipalities using a panel on municipalities ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2014,
39 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2014,1)
| Frank M. Fossen, Ronny Freier, Thorsten Martin
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Externe Monographien
Solarenergie ist die größte Energieressource auf der Erde und zeichnet sich durch Nachhaltigkeit, Sauberkeit und globale Verfügbarkeit aus. Photovoltaik (PV) Technologien wandeln Sonnenlicht direkt in elektrische Energie um. Die Photovoltaik bietet der Menschheit zahlreiche ökonomische und ökologische Vorteile und besitzt die höchste Lernrate in der Energiewelt. Politikinstrumente zur Förderung des ...
Berlin:
Technische Universität,
2014,
XI, 119 S.
| Thilo Grau
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Externe Working Papers
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university entrance degree but no further professional ...
Jena:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität,
2014,
27 S.
(Jena Economic Research Papers ; 2014-029)
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe Working Papers
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly ...
Berlin:
RatSWD,
2014,
30 S.
(RatSWD Working Paper Series ; 236)
| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing
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Research Project
Promoting consumers’ rights, prosperity, and wellbeing are core values of the European Union. A wide array of laws, institutions, and regulations – which can be generally termed as consumer policies – aim at protecting consumers by ensuring adequate and truthful information in the marketplace as well as preventing firms from engaging in unfair and competition-impairing practices. While some of...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Data Documentation 76 / 2015
Environmental employment is an issue with high interest to the public and to policy makers. Yet, the debate is blurred by a great number of distinct definitions and hence estimates of environmental employment. Therefore it is essential to carefully document delimitations and methods used in any attempt to quantify environmental employment. This paper presents a method for estimating gross environmental ...
2015| Jürgen Blazejczak, Dietmar Edler
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The literature on female labor force participation (FLFP) shows which personal and household characteristics determine FLFP in Egypt and in the Global North. The question remains, however to what extent these determinants differ between the Northern hemisphere and Egypt. This paper attempts to shed light on understanding if and how specific demographic factors affect the Egyptian FLFP in...
14.01.2015| Sara Hassan Hosney, German University in Cairo