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In the debate on the premature phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the …-out regulations affect both the magnitude of total economic costs and the distribution of these costs across nuclear power plants and … competing companies. Based on a dynamic partial equilibrium analysis of power supply options, we quantify the excess costs of …
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In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...
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, however, constitutes a lasting obstacle to integration. The aim of this paper is to assess these costs of supervisory …
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We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We apply two different comparator-based approaches - the 'before and-after' approach and the 'difference-in-differences' approach - and especially study the impact of various...
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We use a unique private data set of about 340,000 invoice positions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to...
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evaluation of the external costs is based on a bottom-up approach. The calculation involves four stages: emissions, dispersion …, impacts, and costs, following the impact pathway approach. An integrated model for the valuation of environmental and health … costs due to air pollutants will be presented consisting of three computer programmes which are linked together. For …
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(MIV) für verschiedene Technologien, Fahrsituationen und alle Regionen in Deutschland berechnet. Dabei ist das Ziel der … generierte Luftverschmutzung und die daraus resultierenden externen Kosten stark unterschiedlich sind. Betrachtet werden …) generiert. Die wichtigsten Faktoren für diese hohen regionalen Unterschiede sind der vorherrschende Südwestwind in Deutschland …
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The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of ?weak? and ?strong? sustainability approaches are...
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costs (hedging costs) for firm values and exposure. Based on time series data of German DAX companies, DM/ dollar rates and … finding can be explained by higher exchange rate adjustment costs in case of substantial deviations from the long-run median … level. Furthermore, there is indication of asymmetric adjustment costs as effects from appreciations of domestic currency …
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This paper is concerned with the question as to what extent population size and density affect the cost of providing public services at the subnational level. Empirical estimates of cost functions are obtained from an analysis of the expenditures of German states disaggregated into about 40...
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