Das Finanzierungssaldo des Landes Berlin ist bereits seit elf Jahren durchgehend negativ. Um die Finanzierungsprobleme zu lösen, hat der Berliner Senat kürzlich einen Finanzplan mit erheblichen Einsparungen bis zum Jahr 2009 vorgelegt. Reichen diese Maßnahmen aus, die Haushaltslage zu...

Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland ist nach wie vor bedrückend hoch, und mit einer grundlegenden Besserung ist in absehbarer Zeit nicht zu rechnen. In der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion wird schon seit längerem gefordert, durch grundlegende Reformen der Institutionen und Strukturen des...

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University. ; Polyaniline-based membranes were developed during this work. The combination of polyaniline with PVDF offers the opportunity of creating large, dense and...

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This paper studies the relation between discrete-time and continuous-time principalagent models. We derive the continuous-time model as a limit of discrete-time models with ever shorter periods and show that optimal incentive schemes in the discrete-time models approximate the optimal incentive...

The relative roles of factor inputs and productivity are estimated in explaining the level of economic development. For a large sample of countries, it is shown that international differences in factor inputs account for between two thirds and three quarters of international differences in...

We study behavior in experimental beauty contests with, first, boundary and interior equilibria, and, second, homogeneous and heterogenous types of players. We find quicker and better convergence to the game-theoretic equilibrium with interior equilibria and homogeneous players.

Although it is not possible, in general, to give a macro description of a micro model over the entire state space of the micro model, it is possible to aggregate exactly over a subspace. The set of micro states where aggregation is possible forms the aggregation set. The paper considers the...