Kürzlich veröffentlichte BIP-Zahlen bestätigen, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft dem Ende der russischen Gasimporte standgehalten hat und im vergangenen Winter sogar eine Rezession vermieden wurde. Dieses Ergebnis sollte die im letzten Jahr durch das "Was wäre, wenn"-Papier (Bachmann et al.,...

Die Verfügbarkeit von Breitbandinternet für Handwerksbetriebe im ländlichen Raum als Grundlage für die Digitalisierung der Betriebe wird in der politischen Diskussion betont. Wissenschaftlich ist jedoch bislang offen, wie relevant die Breitbandverfügbarkeit für die Digitalisierungsdynamik...

Um die Potenziale der Mikrosimulation als ein Instrument zur Analyse der zukünftigen Versorgungslagen im Elementarbereich und zur Planung entsprechender (politischer) Interventionen zu untersuchen, wurde am Beispiel der Stadt Trier eine Mikrosimulationsstudie durchgeführt. Die Datenbasis...

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good economy and to cure the underprovision problem associated with private provision of public goods. The desired Pareto optimal interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only...

We recommend the immediate universal adoption of cloth facemasks, including homemade, and accompanying policies to increase the supply of medical masks for health workers. Universal adoption will likely slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus by reducing transmission from asymptomatic individuals....

This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...

Das Handbuch zeigt Lösungsansätze zur Aufrechterhaltung und Entwicklung nachhaltiger Versorgungsstrukturen im Quartier auf. Neben der Beschreibung verschiedener Instrumente und Handlungsschritte zur Gestaltung eines übergeordneten Versorgungskonzepts werden praktische Methoden vorgestellt und...

This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...

"The crisis of distribution is one of the longest standing and complicated issues facing human society. Imbued with social, political, historic, and cultural elements, it varies significantly across different countries as a result of all these factors. As an emerging economy which transferred...

Das deutsche Gesundheitswesen ist hochkomplex und für Außenstehende nur schwer durchschaubar. Sogar Experten haben Schwierigkeiten, die Struktur und Funktionsweise der verschiedenen Teilsysteme und Versorgungsbereiche insgesamt zu überblicken. Durch die zahlreichen Gesundheitsreformen wird es...

Herausforderungen für Städte und Immobilienmarktakteure -- Strategiekonzeption (Mitigation/Adaption) -- Fallbeispiele für Stadtentwicklungen nach früheren Pandemien -- Implikationen für Akteure und Nutzungen in Städten (Wohnen, Arbeiten, Versorgen).-Implikationen für die Investition und...

This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected epidemiological effects of this at scale drug provision. We provide...

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected epidemiological effects of this at scale drug provision. We provide...

This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...

Kritikalität von Rohstoffen -- Das Konzept Unternehmerische Rohstoffstrategien -- Substitution als Rohstoffstrategie -- Historische Erfahrungen im Umgang mit Kritikalität -- Aktuelle Evidenz: Der Fall Seltene Erden -- Die Unternehmensperspektive auf Versorgungsrisiken bei Seltenen Erden.

Many economic transactions are prohibited—even in the absence of health or safety concerns or negative externalities—because of ethical concerns that cause these exchanges to be perceived as “repugnant” if conducted through a market. Establishing a system of payments for human organs is...

Many economic transactions are prohibited--even in the absence of health or safety concerns or negative externalities--because of ethical concerns that cause these exchanges to be perceived as "repugnant" if conducted through a market. Establishing a system of payments for human organs is a...

Preface -- Perhaps an accident -- Alvarado, sea captain -- Jaime and Pepita, grocers -- Esteban and Manuel, distributors -- The General, Juniper, and Jesse : outsiders -- Acaso una intención (perhaps an intention) -- The moral of our story -- Afterword

We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of deep uncertainty about the benefits of the public good, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private information....

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...

We study the daily behavior of supermarket prices and product availability following two recent natural disasters: the 2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on product availability. The number of goods available for...

We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...

We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...

We study the daily behavior of supermarket prices and product availability following two recent natural disasters: the 2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on product availability. The number of goods available for...

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...