Jens Perret

• Professor
• International School of Management

The cosmetics industry requires a long-term, sustainable vision to reduce its impact on the environment. Within this process, packaging is of critical relevance, as it impacts the ecological footprint of products and determines consumers’ perception of the product as sustainable and green while shaping their willingness to purchase the product. Thi...

As counterfeits of luxury brands threaten the authenticity of genuine brands, this study considers, in the context of a quantitative analysis, the impact exposure to good and bad counterfeits has on the perception of the exclusivity and the brand image of genuine luxury brands. The monolithic concept of brand image is split into the four dimensions...

Obgleich Konsumenten ihrem Wunsch nach Luxusmode heutzutage vermehrt mit secondhand Gütern gerecht werden, sei es aufgrund von Nachhaltigkeit oder ande-ren Gründen, zeigen sich bislang wenige Luxusmodemarken mit eigenen Second-hand Plattformen in diesem Markt aktiv. Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Vorbereitung von zwei Discrete Cho...

The Nutri-Score is currently used in 7 countries in the EU and is part of the German reduction and innovation strategy to combat non-communicable diseases related to unhealthy eating. The Nutri-Score is intended to inform consumers and serves as a guide when buying packaged food. The aim of this study is to investigate the significance, benefits, f...

The sustainability trend of recent years is reflected in society’s growing environmental awareness and the increasing promotion of green products and services in the market. The flip side is that most advertisements and green branding originate from companies that still have a negative impact on the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to unders...

The Baltic States are the only post-Soviet countries that successfully managed not only their accession to the EU and the Eurozone, but also the establishment of functioning innovation systems on a regional and national level. Due to their short history and small size, data availability was limited and still limits macroeconomic studies of their in...

The risk of poverty in old age increases leading to a global retirement crisis. This development presumes the increased importance of private pension provision and motivates the assessment of other solutions, like the usage of emerging blockchain technology. This study provides an empirical study based on qualitative expert interviews to identify o...

English) Theory How can AR help Montblanc provide innovative retail experiences, create brand value, and increase awareness of Montblanc as a modern and technology-driven brand. Methods A mixed-method design combining an online survey with in-depth interviews. Results The initial effect of Montblanc's brand image on the participants impacts their e...

This paper examines the interrelation of venture capital investments and innovation within the European FinTech market in the timeframe from January 2015 to July 2022. In addition to previous studies on the related topics, this paper also highlights the interrelation of the number of venture capital investments and innovation within the European Fi...

Due to its continuous global growth and high consumption of natural resources, the cosmetics industry requires a long-term vision for sustainability management that drives it to reduce the impact on the environment and climate with the help of environmentally friendly measures along the entire life cycle of a product. Packaging is of considerable r...

The female target group is becoming increasingly important for both the luxury market and the luxury watch market. As a result, brands that have so far focused predominantly on the male target group must develop strategies to attract the female target group to their brand and products. Only with the help of a clear brand management and positioning...

The female target group is becoming increasingly important for both the luxury market and the luxury watch market. As a result, brands that have so far focused predominantly on the male target group must develop strategies to attract the female target group to their brand and products. Only with the help of a clear brand management and positioning...

The following mixed-method study is intended to elaborate the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy in the apparel industry and, in the context of this, on the one hand to show the current situation of sharing concepts in the apparel industry and on the other hand to reflect the characteristics, the motives and barriers as well as the...

The aim of this study is to investigate whether CEOs can influence the share price of their companies via their own tweets. The TOP 5 companies of the Nasdaq-100 with their respective CEOs were selected. All tweets from the CEOs during a six-month period were categorized and mapped to the daily stock prices, determining potential effects on the sto...

Globally, unhealthy diets have a significant impact on people's risk of disease and mortality, so the German Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture also focuses on healthier and balanced diets in its reduction and innovation strategy. By means of the Nutri-Score, the nudging principle is used to provide consumers with additional nutritional labellin...

Weltweit hat ungesunde Ernährung einen erheblichen Einfluss auf das Krankheitsrisiko und die Sterblichkeit der Menschen, so dass auch das BMLE in seiner Reduktions- und Innovationsstrategie seinen Fokus auf eine gesündere und ausgewogene Ernährung legt. Mittels des Nutri-Scores wird das Nudging-Prinzip genutzt, um den Konsumenten eine zusätzliche N...

The airline industry continues to face external shocks such as oil spikes which continue to put downward pressure on an airline’s operating model and fuel prices remains the industry’s wild card. Due to the cyclicality nature of the industry, risk of commodity price (oil) exposure significantly impacts the airlines’ performance outcomes. In this st...

Purpose: In order to successfully implement augmented reality applications in fashion retail, the willingness of the target group to use such applications need to be elicited. This article provides a comparison between the acceptance of augmented reality applications in stationary and mobile fashion retail. For this purpose, the technology acceptan...

The purpose of this study is the integration of previously overlooked psychological habit research into behavioral economics. It is discussed if habits can be considered a stand-alone effect within behavioral economics and how they might deepen the understanding of known effects. In this context three domains where identified, in which habits lead...

Purpose This research extends the existing literature by investigating the customer’s perception of organizational support and willingness to buy as well as perceived product quality, warmth, competence, and organizational greed; differentiating between for-profit and non-profit social ventures as well as for-profit ventures. Methodology An online...

This study analyzes the various stages of the customer journey (CJ) concept using the example of the lingerie product area. The fields of Customer Journey Management, Customer Relationship Management , and Customer Experience Management, which have so far been largely considered separately, are summarized into a comprehensive framework. In the seco...

Purpose The purpose of the study is to fill a gap in the literature on mathematical production planning (joint balancing and sequencing) in the fashion industry. It considers in particular situations of mass customization, made-to-measure or small lot sizes. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a mathematical model based on product optio...

The transmission of knowledge between different entities is a central part of the concept of the national innovation system introduced by Lundvall. As knowledge in general, and tacit knowledge specifically, is a statistically rather intangible concept, alternative concepts need to be implemented to account for it. This study uses the idea of invent...

Objectives: The overall objective is to create awareness that production scheduling methods represent highly valuable tools in contributing to a more sustainable garment manufacturing. Further, a structured illustration of existing objectives of production scheduling is provided by grouping them according to their influence on the production runs....

The impact of environmental motivations on the individual’s decisions regarding investments in energy efficiency and the adoption of energy-saving habits are analyzed for a representative sample of Chinese inhabitants from the larger Beijing area, replicating a comparative study on Western Europe. For the considered type of energy efficiency invest...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put fashion manufacturers' needs for optimization in the spotlight. This study argues that mass customization is becoming increasingly instrumental for offering consumers individualized solutions and that suppliers of fashion have to look for more sophisticated solutions in order to face the increasing demand for more sust...

In contrast to studies focusing on determinants of influencers’ relevance which are limited to mostly qualitative discussions, this study focuses on the similarity between social media influencers as relevant figures of a network and the mathematical study of social networks, i.e., the use of network statistics and centrality measures. A dataset of...

This study examines, based upon four guiding research questions, how change towards a post-growth society can take place and what consequences this will have for society, i.e. as well the individual consumer, but especially for luxury as a concept and the luxury market as purveyor of goods considered luxurious. In a mixed-method approach, expert op...

The various applications of AI have not yet led to widespread acceptance in marketing. Nevertheless, AI has enormous potential to fundamentally change the field of marketing with its applications, making the topic highly relevant for companies. By analyzing current applications, potential use cases in the near future, implementation opportunities a...

The present study revisits the topic of influencer marketing from a quantitative point of view. For a sample of 255 influencers from the field of women’s fashion on Instagram the lists of those ac-counts they follow have been used to generate a network connecting them to their peers. Based on core metrics for the influencers in the sample and the n...

Customer lifetime value (CLV) has been gaining increasing importance in many areas but the (RFM – recency, frequency, monetary) segmentation framework is the most commonly used due to the availability of customer data as well as ease of calculation. One of the drawbacks of the RFM segmentation framework is that it is unable to identify behavior cor...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put fashion manufacturers' needs of optimization in spotlight. Additionally, Mass Customization is becoming increasingly instrumental for offering consumers individualized solutions. With the help of a mathematical model derived from production sequencing it became firstly evident that sustainability can be associated with...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, auf Basis von vier forschungsleitenden Fragen, wie ein Wandel hin zu einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft sich vollziehen kann bzw. welche Konsequenzen sich in diesem Zusammenhang für die Gesellschaft aber insbesondere für die Unternehmen ergeben wird. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf den Luxusmarkt gelegt. Es z...

This paper examines the economic rationale behind airline fuel hedging. Therefore, an overview of the global airline market is given herein, followed by a statistical analysis of how the airline industry is affected by the volatility of oil price spikes and development and how the airlines prescribe measures to buffer these shocks by hedging kerose...

Purpose - Building on the distinction between brand-owned and third-party secondhand platforms, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the possibility of a brand-owned secondhand platform with regard to brand image, operative brand activity, value proposition and consumer relations. Study design/methodology/approach - A mixed-methods study, combi...

Regarding their Goal orientation people can be divided into those that strife to enhance their skills (learning goal orientation / LGO) and those that aim to demonstrate their advanced skills (performance-approach goal orientation / PApGO) or hide their inferior skills (performance-avoidance goal orientation / PAvGO). The study analyzes the relatio...

With the study of determinants of an influencer's relevance limited to qualitative discussions thereof, this study focuses on the similarity between influencer marketing with its focus on influencers as relevant figures of a social media network and the analytical study of social networks. A data set of 255 influencers spanning a period of four yea...

Two data sets, a German public university and a German private university of applied sciences, have been used to test, in a nationwide sample, for potential gender differences in the outcome of exams in basic economics. By consisting of a total of more than 9,000 observations over nine years or 18 semesters and seven locations across Germany, the s...

Based on the research done by Dunbar and the resulting Social Brain Hypothesis, the present study introduced a mathematical model for the development of follower numbers and the number of followed accounts regarding users/influencers of Social Media platforms. Under very simple assumptions the mathematical model suggests that an universal upper bou...

JEL classification: C21, D91, M31 Summary: Low involvement goods per definition do not require the customer to invest a significant amount of will-power into the purchasing decision. Thus, buying decisions in this context are primarily driven by the intuitive mind and relevant decision heuristics. This study focuses on the anchor and the framing he...

The presented study analyzes the effects of experience marketing on the attractive-ness of German factory-outlet-centers (FOC). Due to a changing competitive landscape and societal value changes, the retail sector has to find new ways to remain attractive for consumers, one of this is the use of ex-perience marketing. In FOC, however, this developm...

Digitalization is a set part of today’s society and even luxury brands feel the increasing need of a digital presence. More than half of all consumers of luxury goods buy them online on a regular basis. The luxury fashion brand Chanel still abstains from offering their most important items in their portfolio online: fashion, jewelry and watches. In...

The present study examines the position of the EU28 member states and the comparative advantage of each vis-à-vis the other states in the EU28 market using four particular chosen leading markets; Renewable Energies, Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technologies and the Recycling sector. Within the framework of this study, two modified v...

In a competitive environment characterised by tight margins and the increasing cost of raw materials , many food producers are aiming to identify additional cost reduction measures. To that respect, the filling quantity of prepackaged goods is of major interest, as a reduction of this quantity will directly improve the cost of a product. However, t...

Das Kapitel wiederholt die mathematischen Grundkenntnisse, die für das weitere Verständnis des Arbeitsbuchs relevant sind. In diesem Zusammenhang erfolgt neben einer Darlegung von Grundkonzepten insbesondere eine Einfühung in die Theorie der Differential- und Integralrechnung sowie die Grundlagen der Arbeit mit Matrizen und linearen Gleichungssyste...

Das fünfte Kapitel bezieht sich primär auf die Berechnung von Konfidenzintervallen, insbesondere solchen für den Mittelwert und die Varianz. Für beiden Arten von Konfidenzintervallen wird darüber hinaus dargestellt wie diese mittels Microsoft Excel berechnet werden können. Eine Sammlung von Aufgaben, den zugehörigen Lösungen und Wiederholungsfragen...

Dieses Kapitel liefert ergänzende Materialien zum Einsatz des Arbeitsbuchs für Studierende als auch für Dozenten. Zunächst stellt es großformatige Aufgaben zur Verfügung, die in sich die Form eines speziellen Praxisproblems aufweisen. Hieran können die unterschiedlichen Konzepte des Arbeitsbuchs erprobt werden bzw. aufgrund der Größe der Datensets...

In diesem Kapitel werden zunächst statistische Grundbegriffe wie Skalenniveaus eingeführt. Nach einer Darstellung der unterschiedlichen Häufigkeitsbegriffe erfolgt eine Erarbeitung der klassischen univariaten statistischen Kennzahlen unterteilt in Lage-, Streuungs- und Verteilungsmaße ebenso wie hinsichtlich der verschiedenen Skalenniveaus und der...

In diesem Kapitel wird das Konzept der Markow-Ketten eingeführt. Neben der theoretischen Darstellung wird darüber hinaus dargestellt wie Gleichgewichte mittels Microsoft Excel berechnet werden können. Eine Sammlung von Aufgaben, den zugehörigen Lösungen und Wiederholungsfragen rundet das Kapitel ab.

Im Folgenden finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Excel-Befehle, auf die im Rahmen dieses Buchs verwiesen wird. Die Liste ist bewusst knapp gehalten und alphabetisch sortiert. Eine thematisch geordnete Behandlung und damit auch tiefergehende Beschreibung erfolgt in den einzelnen Kapiteln.

Das Kapitel greift die Idee der Analyse von Zeitreihen auf und behandelt aufbauend auf einer Einleitung in die Thematik gleitende Durchschnitte sowie die exponentielle Glättung erster und zweiter Ordnung. Für die beide Konzepte wird darüber hinaus dargestellt wie diese mittels Microsoft Excel berechnet werden können. Eine Sammlung von Aufgaben, den...

Im den meisten Fällen besteht das größte Problem nicht darin eine Formel korrekt anzuwenden und Wahrscheinlichkeiten zu berechnen. Das größte Problem besteht meistens darin zu wissen, was bei einer speziellen Aufgabe genau gefordert ist und wie man zu der korrekten Formel gelangt. An dieser Stelle möchte dieses Kapitel ansetzen und eine Entscheidun...

In diesem Kapitel werden basierend auf den Grundlagen und Operatoren der Mengenlehre die Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung erarbeitet. Diese beinhalten neben allgemeinen Rechenregeln für Wahrscheinlichkeiten, bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeiten, den Satz über die totale Wahrscheinlichkeit sowie den Satz von Bayes. Für die vorgestellten Konzepte...

Das siebte Kapitel behandelt in einem ersten Teil das Konzept der Zusammenhangsmaße, wobei diese in Abhängigkeit von den Skalenniveaus eingeführt werden. Entsprechend werden neben der X² - Statistik und dadurch motivierter Kennzahlen, Spearmans und Pearson Korrelationskoeffizient eingeführt. Im zweiten Teil behandelt das Kapitel die Regressionsrech...

Das Kapitel führt zunächst in das Konzept der Zufallsvariablen und die Grundlagen der Kombinatorik ein. Darauf aufbauend wird zunächst allgemein darstellt wie für beliebige Verteilungen Wahrscheinlichkeiten berechnet werden können bevor auswählte Wahrscheinlichkeiten im Detail vorgestellt werden. Die im Detail behandelten Verteilungen umfassen insb...

Das Kapitel führt zunächst allgemein in die Idee der statistischen Tests ein bevor stellvertretend für parametrische Tests die Gauß- und t-Test Variante von Ein- und Zweistichproben Mittelwerttests dargestellt wird. Diese Darstellung wird ergänzt durch nicht-parametrische Verteilungstests, die hier durch drei Varianten des X² - Tests vertreten sind...

The present study picks up on the aspect of knowledge generation—a key part of every national innovation system—in the context of the Russian Federation. Following Fritsch and Slavtchev (2006), a knowledge production function can be used to account for the efficiency of an innovation system. In detail, this study implements a panel quantile regress...

Das erste Kapitel des Arbeitsbuchs behandelt in einem ersten Teil Grundlagen der Mathematik, die im Rahmen der Volkswirtschaftslehre allgemein und im vorliegenden Arbeitsbuch insbesondere Verwendung finden. Dieses Kapitel bietet Studierenden die Möglichkeit Aspekte der Mathematik, die ihnen nicht oder nicht mehr vollständig präsent sind aufzuarbeit...

Das zweite Kapitel der Arbeit greift den Themenkomplex der volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung auf und stellt zu diesem Komplex sowohl Aufgaben als auch die zugehörigen Lösungen dar. Inhaltlich teilt sich dieses Kapitel in drei größere Bereiche auf. Im ersten Bereich werden Aufgaben behandelt bei denen die Entstehungs-, Verwendungs- und Verteilung...

Im sechsten Kapitel werden drei Beispielsituationen / Case Studies konstruiert in Form einer Sammlung von wirtschaftlichen Kennzahlen, die unterschiedliche Situationen beschreiben. Im Rahmen dieser Case Studies werden unterschiedliche Fragen zu verschiedenen Punkten der Wirtschaftsentwicklung gestellt. Durch die interthematische Behandlung können S...

Das dritte Kapitel des Arbeitsbuchs führt thematisch in die Makroökonomie ein. In diesem Kontext wird zunächst über einen Rückgriff auf die Mikroökonomie die Idee des Marktes eingeführt. Im Anschluss werden die idealtypischen Makromärkte und jeweils verbundene Probleme wie Inflation diskutiert. Insbesondere werden im Kontext der Finanzmärkte die Ba...

Während das vorhergehende dritte Kapitel des Arbeitsbuchs eine eher neoklassische Perspektive einnimmt liegt dem vierten Kapitel eine keynesianische Perspektive zugrunde. In Analogie zu Kapitel 3 werden zunächst Der Gütermarkt über die IS-Kurve und der Geldmarkt über die LM-Kurve eingeführt. Zusammen bilden diese das IS-LM-Modell. Ergänzt man diese...

Im fünfen Kapitel werden die beiden Themenbereichen Wachstum und Konjunktur behandelt. Im Detail wird der Wachstumsbereich durch eine Diskussion des neoklassischen Solow-Wachstums-modells abgedeckt.

Das Arbeitsbuch richtet sich primär an dem Lehrbuch „Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik“ von Prof. Dr. Paul J.J. Welfens aus, hierbei insbesondere an den ersten beiden Abschnitten zur makroökonomischen Theorie und Politik, kann allerdings auch unabhängig davon genutzt werden. Die einzelnen Kapitel fassen zunächst die wichtigsten inhaltlichen Aspekte...

Das Arbeitsbuch liefert eine kurze theoretische Rekapitulation aller relevanten Themengebiete der grundlegenden Statistik eines Bachelorstudiengangs, darauf folgend enthält das Buch im Hauptteil eine breite Zusammenstellung von Übungsaufgaben (MC, Verständnis-, Rechen- und Transferaufgaben) als auch die zugehörigen Lösungsschritte. Ergänzend wird d...

This breviary likewise addresses students as well as practitioners that are active in quantitative market research and applied statistics and data analysis in particular. It provides a pragmatic summary of all the most commonly implemented statistical methods and their implementation in the standard software package SPSS. Aside from an overview ove...

Das vorliegende Brevier richtet sich gleichermaßen an Studierende als auch an Praktiker aus den Bereichen der quantitativen Marktforschung ebenso wie der praktischen Datenanalyse. Es liefert eine pragmatische Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten statistischen Methoden und ihrer Implementierung in dem Standardsoftwarepaket SPSS. Neben einer Übersicht übe...

Set in the context neoclassical growth theory the discussion of economic convergence is revisited in the context of the Russian Federation. Compared to previous similar studies, here a larger more comprehensive data set is implemented (1994–2013) allowing to check for differences in convergence during different time periods. Using a panel approach...

A knowledge production function is used to account for the efficiency of an innovation systems; it provides a quantile regression estimation of the knowledge production function to account for a nonlinear relationship (efficiency) between knowledge inputs and knowledge output. Regional data for researchers, expenditures on R&D and patent grants for...

A knowledge production function is used to account for the efficiency of an innovation systems; it provides a quantile regression estimation of the knowledge production function to account for a nonlinear relationship (efficiency) between knowledge inputs and knowledge output. Regional data for researchers, expenditures on R&D and patent grants for...

The impact of environmental motivations on the individual’s decisions regarding investments in energy efficiency and the adoption of energy-saving habits are analysed on the basis of a representative online survey carried out in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Various energy efficiency investments and daily energy-saving activities are consid...

At the core of every national innovation system two concepts are of central importance: The generation and the diffusion of innovations and ergo knowledge; on the one hand inside the system itself and on the other across the system's borders. The present study picks up on the aspect of knowledge generation in the context of the Russian Federation....

Während das vorhergehende dritte Kapitel des Arbeitsbuchs eine eher neoklassische Perspektive einnimmt liegt dem vierten Kapitel eine keynesianische Perspektive zugrunde. In Analogie zu Kapitel 3 werden zunächst Der Gütermarkt über die IS-Kurve und der Geldmarkt über die LM-Kurve eingeführt. Zusammen bilden diese das IS-LM-Modell. Ergänzt man diese...

Das zweite Kapitel der Arbeit greift den Themenkomplex der volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung auf und stellt zu diesem Komplex sowohl Aufgaben als auch die zugehörigen Lösungen dar. Inhaltlich teilt sich dieses Kapitel in drei größere Bereiche auf. Im ersten Bereich werden Aufgaben behandelt bei denen die Entstehungs-, Verwendungs- und Verteilung...

Im sechsten Kapitel werden drei Beispielsituationen / Case Studies konstruiert in Form einer Sammlung von wirtschaftlichen Kennzahlen, die unterschiedliche Situationen beschreiben. Im Rahmen dieser Case Studies werden unterschiedliche Fragen zu verschiedenen Punkten der Wirtschaftsentwicklung gestellt. Durch die interthematische Behandlung können S...

Im fünfen Kapitel werden die beiden Themenbereichen Wachstum und Konjunktur behandelt. Im Detail wird der Wachstumsbereich durch eine Diskussion des neoklassischen Solow-Wachstums-modells abgedeckt. Der Bereich Konjunktur wird großteils durch eine eher allgemeine Diskussion von Konjunkturzyklen abgedeckt und lediglich in Ansätzen wird eine theoreti...

Das dritte Kapitel des Arbeitsbuchs führt thematisch in die Makroökonomie ein. In diesem Kontext wird zunächst über einen Rückgriff auf die Mikroökonomie die Idee des Marktes eingeführt. Im Anschluss werden die idealtypischen Makromärkte und jeweils verbundene Probleme wie Inflation diskutiert. Insbesondere werden im Kontext der Finanzmärkte die Ba...

Das erste Kapitel des Arbeitsbuchs behandelt in einem ersten Teil Grundlagen der Mathematik, die im Rahmen der Volkswirtschaftslehre allgemein und im vorliegenden Arbeitsbuch insbesondere Verwendung findet. Dieses Kapitel bietet Studierenden die Möglichkeit Aspekte der Mathematik, die ihnen nicht oder nicht mehr vollständig präsent sind aufzuarbeit...

Climate policy has become a key element of modern economic policy in a world economy facing the challenges of long-run economic growth—associated with a rising use of energy—and the need to limit global warming. A global temperature rise of more than 2° relative to 1850 seems to bring a considerable risk of warming and hence there is a need for enh...

Innovation dynamics are crucial for achieving sustainable development and, from this perspective, innovation systems and green entrepreneurship are important, as is the institutional framework of economic policy. Resource-saving technological progress and progress in the field of energy efficiency are key challenges. The latter refers to the global...

At a basic level, one could build indicators based on the individual, which is often a good way to motivate individuals to reconsider their respective lifestyles. Alternatively (or in a complementary way), one may develop indicators with a focus on individual countries so that the focus is more on political action, including opportunities for inter...

Covering global sustainability requires having a consistent composite indicator and focusing on the development of sustainability over time and across countries (as well as looking at the aggregate result for the world economy). The indicator considered is constructed, in the basic version, of three elements. An extended version, which is available...

For the last decade, Asian countries have been enjoying a positive and steady economic growth. It is projected that the economy of Asia will grow steadily at 5.4 % in 2014 and 5.5 % in 2015 (IMF 2014). Despite some disruptions, such as the global economic crisis, the Asian economy still grew positively due to its strong domestic demand (IMF 2014)....

There are many sustainability approaches applied in the literature and naturally one will want to carefully consider the methodology being applied. Ultimately, a composite sustainability indicator which takes several dimensions of sustainability into account should, at the very least, be consistent, informative, and relevant, for households, invest...

Policymakers have an impact on sustainability through the framework conditions that are set for the private sector, through public procurement, through government policy intervention in various fields, and through impulses for double sustainability: namely, setting incentives or new standards for the long-term financing of projects which generate p...

Standard approaches to damaging of the environment greatly emphasize the issue of nonrenewable resources. This focus is not surprising, as some vital resources used in industry are important nonrenewable inputs. However, one should not overlook the fact that innovation dynamics and technological progress typically can mitigate some of the problems...

Das vorliegende Arbeitsbuch richtet sich an dem Lehrbuch „Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik“ von Prof. Dr. Paul J.J. Welfens aus, hierbei insbesondere an den ersten beiden Abschnitten zur makroökonomischen Theorie und Politik, kann allerdings auch unabhängig davon genutzt werden. Die einzelnen Kapitel fassen zunächst die wichtigsten inhaltlichen As...

This study develops a new indicator for national and global sustainability. The main components of the EIIW-vita indicator are: the share of renewable energy, the genuine savings rate and the relative "green export" position of the respective countries; it is in line with OECD requirements on composite indicators. As green exports are related to te...

The transmission of knowledge between different entities is a central part of the concept of the national innovation system introduced by Lundvall. As knowledge in general is a statistically rather intangible concept, alternative concepts need to be implemented to account for it. This study uses patent citations to account for codified knowledge fl...

Using a basic growth accounting approach it is deduced how far the regional knowledge infrastructure plays any significant role across the regions of the Russian Federation. Aside from aspects of the size of the regional innovation system, like the number of researchers and students, it is discussed in how far the inflow and outflow of knowledge pl...

The traditional discussion about CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases as a source of global warming has been rather static, namely in the sense that innovation dynamics have not been considered much. Given the global nature of the climate problem, it is natural to develop a more dynamic Schumpeterian perspective and to emphasize a broader internation...

In this chapter the different terms and concepts implemented in the study are introduced. In all cases not only is the concept itself introduced but it is as well discussed in how far it can be measured and which data sourced were used to measure it.Starting with an basic description of economic growth the problem with regional price levels which n...