Governments deciding to use nuclear energy as part of their country׳s energy mix are faced with long-term planning efforts and huge investments. As nuclear power plants constitute one of the socially and politically most contested technologies, the question arises, which time horizons companies...

EU intergovernmental conferences -- Theorizing EU constitutionalization -- Research design: a quantitative case study -- The agenda: notes, issues, and issue groups -- The domestic game -- Transgovernmental networks in semi-permeable governments -- Signals and concessions -- Conclusion.

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age and year effects in the returns....