Einführung -- Volkswirtschaftliches Denken -- Ordnungsmodelle in der Volkswirtschaft -- Licht und Schatten der Globalisierung -- Ex-post — Makroökonomie und Empirie -- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung (VGR) -- Außenhandel und Zahlungsbilanz -- Geld und Kredit -- Ex ante —...

Abstract: Die Arbeit identifiziert zunächst geschlechtsspezifische Produktionsmuster. Durch die Kombination von Zeitverwendungsdaten mit Input-Output-Tabellen und Materialbilanzen lassen sich die branchenbezogenen Outputs in Stunden und CO2 Emissionen sowie der Beitrag von Frauen und Männern...

Summary The traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reflects the money value of the annual economic output produced by the domestic industries’ employees. Thus, the GDP fully accounts for paid work. In contrast, unpaid work remains unconsidered. However, measured in time units, unpaid work...

The traditional input-output table (IOT) identifies the intermediate flows between industries, the branches' contributions to satisfy final demand and the primary inputs needed for production. While industries play a key role in the field of input-output analysis, the structure of employees...

Universities’ role in the research system has undergone a significant change in recent years. Stand-alone strategies are continuously replaced by the pooling of resources and collaborations for knowledge. This is due to a rising complexity of scientific problems in conjunction with scarce...

The paper at hand introduces socio-economic input-output-tables which set a priority on the peoples’ activity patterns from a macroeconomic perspective and allow for an integrated analysis in time, monetary and spatial dimension. In order to cover the whole set of activities, the tables do not...

The paper at hand compares the relative importance of modern transport infrastructure for the regional development with the relevance of other region specific factors such as telecommunication networks, educational attainments, centrality and the potential for natural and technological hazards....

After a long period of political debate and technological difficulties, the German heavy goods vehicle (HGV) toll system was finally put into operation in January 2005. This paper is divided into two main parts. The first section discusses the German HGV toll in detail, with a focus on fee...