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Volkswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen einer Weissgeldstrategie für den schweizerischen Finanzsektor
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Location decisions of firms
(2010)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungBecause of the interdependence between resident population (e.g. as customers or manpower) and economic activities (e.g. shops or services), firm location decisions play an important role in comprehensive land use models. However, due to a lack of data at the micro level permit-ting the estimation of discrete choice models, there is only little research on this topic. In this paper, data from the commercial registers of three Swiss cantons, ...Working Paper -
How do unanticipated discoveries of oil fields affect the oil price?
(2010)Economics Working Paper SeriesThe Hotelling rule argues that the price for a nonrenewable resource adjusts to the shadow value of the resource, reflecting the remaining availability of the resource. We empirically test the Hotelling rule on the effect of unanticipated oil field discoveries. We do not find evidence for a significant adjustment of the price of crude oil to news about greater resource availability and therefore conclude that the price for crude oil does ...Working Paper -
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Basic research, openness, and convergence
(2010)Economics Working Paper SeriesWe study a model where economic growth is fueled by public basic-research investment and the importation of leading technology from foreign countries. In each period, the government chooses the amount of basic research, balancing the cost and benefits of stimulating growth through both channels. We establish the existence of steady states and the long-run share of technologically advanced sectors in the economy. Then, we explore how ...Working Paper -
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On Tensor Products of Quasi-Banach Spaces
(2010)SAM Research ReportDue to applications in approximation theory we are interested in tensor products of quasi-Banach spaces. Though a general abstract theory seems not possible beyond basic topological issues because the dual spaces are possibly trivial, we aim at extending some basic notions like crossnorms, reasonable and uniform norms. In the present paper this is done for quasi- Banach spaces with separating duals, and this condition turns out to be the ...Report -
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Modellierung historischer Reisezeiten im motorisierten Individualverkehr in Deutschland
(2010)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThe road infrastructure has been greatly expanded during the past 40 years. This report describes the data collection and modelling of the historical travel times and network distances of private transport from 1970 to 2006 in Germany.Working Paper -
Calculating benefits of infrastructural investment
(2010)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungWorking Paper