The transition to a green technology is central to environmental policy. During such a transition, technology and market structure often change simultaneously, as firms developing the new technology enter the market of incumbents supplying the old one. This leads to the questions how...

In many countries, inducing large-scale technological changes has become an important policy objective, as in the context of climate policy or energy transitions. Such large-scale changes require the development of strongly interlinked technologies. But current economic models have little...

The transition to a green technology is central to environmental policy. During such a transition, technology and market structure often change simultaneously, as firms developing the new technology enter the market of incumbents supplying the old one. This leads to the questions how...

This paper aims to survey selected recent papers presenting new evidenceon an age-old question in financial economics: “Are stock market returnspredictable?”. The hypothesis that equity returns are predictable (specificallyat long horizons) has been called a “new fact in finance” by...

This paper surveys selected applications of the Lorenz curve and related stochasticorders in economics and econometrics, with a bias towards problems in statisticaldistribution theory. These include characterizations of income distributions in termsof families of inequality measures, Lorenz...

Arbitrage pricing cannot be applied to commodity futures because the physicalcommodity does not represent a pure asset: Since consumption and processing of thecommodity can drive down inventories to zero, it is not always possible to construct areplicating portfolio for the futures contract, and...

This paper examines properties of mean-variance inefficient proxieswith respect to producing a linear relation between expected returnsand betas. The numerical results of a Monte Carlo simulation showthat in the CAPM slightly inefficient, positively weighted proxies causean almost perfect linear...

Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has providedimportant insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food andcontributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of food might wellhave overstrained will power and led...

Die Pro-Kopf-Ausgaben der Schweizer Kantone und Gemeinden unterscheiden sich sehr deutlich: Währendbspw. der Kanton und die Gemeinden von AI im Jahr 2002 nur 7 530 CHF pro Einwohner aufwendeten,beliefen sich die Pro-Kopf-Ausgaben von Basel-Stadt auf über 18 600 CHF2. Die Finanzlage der...