In this paper, we investigate the external effects of the parent's decisions on the number of newly born children and the firm's decisions on the amount of polluting emissions that occur in industrial production. We employ an optimal control model which comprises three stock variables...

This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...

Im Beitrag werden, basierend auf den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels 1993, die Einflußfaktoren umweltorientierter Innovationen in Deutschland in einem multivariaten Kontext ökonometrisch untersucht. Ziel ist es, sowohl allgemeine Strukturen der Einflußfaktoren von Umweltinnovationen zu...