We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …

reference to the case of Germany. We look at the value of the flexibility gained by trading compared to fixed quotas. The … regional emissions trading scheme, then Germany, Great Britain, and Czech Republic are the main sellers of emissions permits … Germany and other regions. When we take into account the economy-wide and terms of trade effects of emissions trading, however …

renewable energy in Germany into two effects: a substitution effect triggered by the displacement of conventional sources and a … Germany are reduced by 32 Mt CO2, but are hardly altered if we consider the European electricity sector in total. Finally, the …