The economic evolution and production has been subject to major shocks and structural changes during the last decades. Beside the standard production factors such as the capital and labour force new production factors for taking into account technological progress and knowledge production and...

"In 2008, the joint task force 'Improvement of Regional Economic Structure' commissioned the Institute for Employment Research in cooperation with the Steinbeis Transfer Centre Applied System Analysis (STASA), Stuttgart, to produce an expert report. This paper presents the results of this report...

A new forecasting method and its application to Germany on district level (413 districts) is shortly presented. The forecasting was performed in 2008. The simulation period started in 2007 with time horizon 2015. A comparison of empirical data and simulated effects is shown for the period 2007...

It is the aim of this paper to provide a new method for the estimation and evaluation of long time ago implemented transport infrastructure and policy measures. This requires before and after data on a small spatial aggregation level. The main problem consists in the separation of the overall...