@techreport{CreutzigFlachslandMcGlynn, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Creutzig, Felix and Flachsland, Christian and McGlynn, Emily}, title = {CITIES: Car industry, road transport and an international emission trading scheme - policy options. A report commissioned by BMW}, language = {en} } @techreport{CreutzigFlachslandMcGlynnetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Creutzig, Felix and Flachsland, Christian and McGlynn, Emily and Minx, Jan C.}, title = {CITIES: Car Industry, Road Transport and an international Emission Trading Scheme. Policy options}, pages = {130}, language = {en} } @techreport{HammerschmidProellerGeissler, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Proeller, Isabella and Geißler, Ren{\´e}}, title = {Verwaltungsf{\"u}hrung heute: Ergebnisse einer F{\"u}hrungskr{\"a}ftebefragung in der deutschen Ministerialverwaltung}, publisher = {Institut f{\"u}r den {\"o}ffentlichen Sektor}, address = {Berlin}, pages = {36}, abstract = {Auf Basis einer deutschlandweiten Erhebung auf Bundes- und L{\"a}nderebene wurden im Zeitraum von Februar bis Juni 2009 erstmalig Erfahrungen der F{\"u}hrungskr{\"a}fte im Bezug auf Verwaltungsf{\"u}hrung und -modernisierung systematisch untersucht. An der vom Institut f{\"u}r den {\"o}ffentlichen Sektor unterst{\"u}tzten Studie der Hertie School of Governance unter Beteiligung der Universit{\"a}ten Potsdam und Leipzig beteiligten sich insgesamt 351 F{\"u}hrungskr{\"a}fte aus allen L{\"a}nderverwaltungen und der Bundesverwaltung. Die Ergebnisse der Befragung zeigen verschiedene Problemfelder auf. Zum einen werden ein zunehmender Budgetdruck und der demografische Wandel als die zentralen und langfristigen Herausforderungen f{\"u}r die {\"o}ffentliche Verwaltung gesehen. Zum anderen wird die fehlende Flexibilit{\"a}t als zentrale Schw{\"a}che erkannt, die Reformen notwendig macht.}, language = {de} } @techreport{IacovoneKellerRauch, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Iacovone, Leonardo and Keller, Wolfgang and Rauch, Ferdinand}, title = {Innovation When The Market Is Shrinking: Firm-level Responses To Competition From China}, abstract = {How does trade liberalization that raises a country's import competition affect the innovative activity of its firms? We exploit the strong growth of Chinese exports resulting from China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 as a competitive shock to, specifically, Mexican manufacturing firms. Innovation is captured through information on the adoption of specific production techniques such as just in time inventory methods, quality control, and job rotation. Our results indicate that China's rise in global trade did not affect by much Mexico's rate of innovation, which contrasts with the substantial gains that others have found in the case of bilateral liberalization. At the same time, there is a striking heterogeneity in the responses across firms: productive firms innovate more while less productive firms innovate less. This leads to positive selection in that initial differences in firm performance are sharpened by the advent of new competition. We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of trade and innovation.}, language = {en} } @techreport{KreyenfeldKubisch, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Kreyenfeld, Michaela and Kubisch, Olga}, title = {Data Documentation Germany: Documentation for the Human Fertility Base}, publisher = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r demografische Forschung}, address = {Rostock}, abstract = {The Human Fertility Database (HFD) is a joint project of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany and the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) in Vienna, Austria, based at MPIDR. We seek to provide free and user-friendly access to detailed and high-quality data on period and cohort fertility and thus to facilitate research on changes and inter-country differences in fertility in the past and in the modern era. The HFD is entirely based on official vital statistics and places a great emphasis on data checking and documentation and on warranting data comparability across time and countries by means of uniform methodology}, language = {en} } @techreport{KreyenfeldPerelliHarrisKubisch, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Kreyenfeld, Michaela and Perelli-Harris, Brienna and Kubisch, Karolin}, title = {Harmonized histories : Manual for the preparation of comparative fertility and union histories}, series = {MPIDR Working Paper (No. 11/2010)}, journal = {MPIDR Working Paper (No. 11/2010)}, publisher = {Max-Planck Institut f{\"u}r demografische Forschung}, address = {Rostock}, pages = {32}, abstract = {This document describes the standardization process of the Harmonized Histories. The Harmonized Histories is a comparative database of rich reproductive and union histories from surveys conducted in a number of countries in Europe. Given that birth and union data has been collected in a number of ways in different surveys, it has been very difficult to conduct cross-national analyses of recent union and fertility behavior over time. A team of researchers called the Nonmarital Childbearing Network has cleaned and standardized the surveys according to guidelines set out in this manual. Currently, the database includes data from the Generations and Gender Surveys (GGSs) in Italy, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Russia; the 2003 Dutch Fertility and Family Survey; and the British Household Panel Survey.}, language = {en} } @techreport{KurbanTsitselikis, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Kurban, Dilek and Tsitselikis, Konstantinos}, title = {A Tale of Reciprocity: Minority Foundations in Greece and Turkey}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-17545}, pages = {40}, abstract = {The word most frequently uttered by Greece and Turkey with regard to their Muslim1 and non-Muslim minorities, respectively, is most probably 'reciprocity.' For more than half a century, in both countries, virtually all administrations,irrespective of their political leanings and ideological base, resorted to the good old 'reciprocity argument' to legitimize their laws, policies, and practices restricting the minority rights of Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Both states have for decades justified their policies on the basis of a theory that argues that Article 45 of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provided the legal basis for reciprocity. Deliberately distorting a crystal-clear provision, which simply confers parallel obligations on Greece and Turkey for the protection of the Muslim and non-Muslim minorities, respectively, both states have for decades held their own citizens hostage, pitting them against each other in the name of defeating the other in foreign policy. Disregarding the objections of international lawyers and institutions that the reciprocity principle does not apply to human rights treaties and that states cannot condition the protection of the fundamental rights of their citizens on the policies of other states, both Greece and Turkey have successfully manipulated their national public opinion into believing in the legitimacy of treating minorities as lesser citizens. This report analyzes the implications of reciprocity policies on the day-to-day lives of Muslim and non-Muslim minorities in Greece and Turkey, specifically their impact on the community foundations2 belonging to these minorities. With a specific focus on the property and self-management issues of Muslim and non-Muslim community foundations in Greece and Turkey, the report situates the issue in its historical context and trace the evolution of the 'community foundation issue' from Lausanne to the present day. Drawing similarities and differences between the laws, policies, and practices of Greek and Turkish states vis-{\`a}-vis their minority foundations, the report critically assesses the progress made to this day as well as identify the outstanding issues.}, language = {en} } @techreport{MinxBaiocchiWiedmann, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Minx, Jan C. and Baiocchi, Giovanni and Wiedmann, Thomas}, title = {Understanding Changes in the UK's CO2 Emissions: A Structural Decomposition Approach}, publisher = {London}, language = {en} } @techreport{MolinaBussoloIacovone, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Molina, Ana Cristina and Bussolo, Maurizio and Iacovone, Leonardo}, title = {The DR-CAFTA and the extensive margin : a firm-level analysis}, series = {World Bank Policy Research Working Paper}, volume = {5340}, journal = {World Bank Policy Research Working Paper}, pages = {33}, language = {en} } @techreport{SEIECIundCambridgeEconometrics, type = {Working Paper}, author = {SEI, ECI und Cambridge Econometrics,}, title = {The Contribution of Products to Meeting UK Climate Change Targets}, language = {en} }