The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This...

Die Arbeitsmarktchancen von HochschulabsolventInnen rücken schon seit geraumer Zeit massiv in das Zentrum des bildungs- wie arbeitsmarktpolitischen Interesses. Dafür verantwortlich ist das erklärte Ziel, einerseits den Anteil an tertiären Abschlüssen zu erhöhen und andererseits die...

This paper provides an assessment of Russia's long-term growth prospects. In particular, it addresses the question of the medium- and long-term sustainability of the country's currently high growth rates. Starting from the notion that Russia's fast economic expansion in recent years has...

Hauptziel dieser Arbeit ist die Erstellung eines Modells zur Ermittlung routenspezifischer Passagierzahlen. Dieses Modell soll aktuelle Passagierzahlen erklären und damit zukünftige routenspezifische Passagierzahlen vorhersagbar machen. Ein solches Modell existiert bisher nicht. Allerdings...

In this paper we describe the EAR (regional economic accessibility) model to investigate the impact of the improvement of railroad infrastructure on regional GDP, population and firms growth in 99 Austrian regions. We evaluate the impact of four potential railroad infrastructure investment...

This paper deals with the regularity problem in the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) in terms of the boundedness of the budget shares within the [0,1] interval. The violation of "cointegration accounting" can be seen just as another consequence of irregularity. The discussion of modifications...