This series, edited by the Ottobeuren Seminar on Economics, publishes those papers which are given at the seminars in Ottobeuren. The purpose of these seminars is to present new theoretical approaches as well as new empirical findings to a group of experts and to discuss the political-economic...

The subject 'Economic Analysis of Treaties' is assessed from various angles: The empirical evidence is discussed here, new theoretical approaches are reviewed, consequences for economic policies are considered. (Published in German.)

The authors of the papers collected here discuss current environmental and economic problems such as sustainability, the effectiveness of environmental policies and aspects of energy policies. (Published in German.)

The paper presents a dynamic general-equilibrium model of education, quality and variety innovation, and scale-invariant growth. We consider endogenous humancapital accumulation in an educational sector and quality and variety innovation in two separate R&D sectors. In the balanced growth...

We develop a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model of science, education and innovation to explain the simultaneous emergence of innovation clusters and stochastic growth cycles. Firms devote human-capital resources to research activities in order to invent higher quality products. The...

Based on a stochastic dynamic model of a firm’s optimal innovativebehavior we derive a simultaneous equation system for product andprocess innovations with intertemporal spillover effects. We estimatevarious versions of the model with dichotomous innovation data at thefirm level by using a...