@phdthesis{SarnesNitu2018,
  author    = {Sarnes-Nitu, Juliane},
  title     = {Mit der Schuldenbremse zu nachhaltigen Staatsfinanzen?},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413804},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {294},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {The core question of this paper is: Does the debt brake secure fiscal sustainability in Germany? To answer this question, we will first examine the effects of the introduction of the debt brake on the German federal states in the period 2010-16. For this purpose, the observed consolidation performance and the consolidation incentive or pressure experienced by the federal states were evaluated with the help of a scorecard specifically developed for this purpose. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze how the scorecard factors affect the consolidation performance of the federal states. It found that nearly 90\% of the variation was explained by the independent variables budgetary position, debt burden, revenue growth and pension burden. Thus the debt brake likely played a subordinate role in the 2009-2016 consolidation episode. Subsequently, the data collected in 65 expert interviews was used to analyze the limits of the new fiscal rule, and to determine which potential risks could hinder or prevent the debt brake in the future: municipal debt, FEUs, contingent liabilities in the form of guarantees for financial institutions and pension obligations. The frequently expressed criticism that the debt brake impedes economic growth and public investments is also reviewed and rejected. Finally, we discuss potential future developments regarding the debt brake and the German public administration as well as future consolidation efforts of the L{\"a}nder.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Krause2011,
  author    = {Krause, Jette},
  title     = {An expert-based Bayesian investigation of greenhouse gas emission reduction options for German passenger vehicles until 2030},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57671},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {The present thesis introduces an iterative expert-based Bayesian approach for assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the 2030 German new vehicle fleet and quantifying the impacts of their main drivers. A first set of expert interviews has been carried out in order to identify technologies which may help to lower car GHG emissions and to quantify their emission reduction potentials. Moreover, experts were asked for their probability assessments that the different technologies will be widely adopted, as well as for important prerequisites that could foster or hamper their adoption. Drawing on the results of these expert interviews, a Bayesian Belief Network has been built which explicitly models three vehicle types: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles (which include mild and full Hybrid Electric Vehicles), Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, and Battery Electric Vehicles. The conditional dependencies of twelve central variables within the BBN - battery energy, fuel and electricity consumption, relative costs, and sales shares of the vehicle types - have been quantified by experts from German car manufacturers in a second series of interviews. For each of the seven second-round interviews, an expert's individually specified BBN results. The BBN have been run for different hypothetical 2030 scenarios which differ, e.g., in regard to battery development, regulation, and fuel and electricity GHG intensities. The present thesis delivers results both in regard to the subject of the investigation and in regard to its method. On the subject level, it has been found that the different experts expect 2030 German new car fleet emission to be at 50 to 65\% of 2008 new fleet emissions under the baseline scenario. They can be further reduced to 40 to 50\% of the emissions of the 2008 fleet though a combination of a higher share of renewables in the electricity mix, a larger share of biofuels in the fuel mix, and a stricter regulation of car CO\$_2\$ emissions in the European Union. Technically, 2030 German new car fleet GHG emissions can be reduced to a minimum of 18 to 44\% of 2008 emissions, a development which can not be triggered by any combination of measures modeled in the BBN alone but needs further commitment. Out of a wealth of existing BBN, few have been specified by individual experts through elicitation, and to my knowledge, none of them has been employed for analyzing perspectives for the future. On the level of methods, this work shows that expert-based BBN are a valuable tool for making experts' expectations for the future explicit and amenable to the analysis of different hypothetical scenarios. BBN can also be employed for quantifying the impacts of main drivers. They have been demonstrated to be a valuable tool for iterative stakeholder-based science approaches.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{StieglitzFuchssHillmannetal.2007,
  author    = {Stieglitz, Stefan and Fuchß, Christoph and Hillmann, Oliver and Lattemann, Christoph},
  title     = {Mobile learning by using ad hoc messaging network},
  issn      = {1867-5808},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19960},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {The requirements of modern e-learning techniques change. Aspects such as community interaction, flexibility, pervasive learning and increasing mobility in communication habits become more important. To meet these challenges e-learning platforms must provide support on mobile learning. Most approaches try to adopt centralised and static e-learning mechanisms to mobile devices. However, often technically it is not possible for all kinds of devices to be connected to a central server. Therefore we introduce an application of a mobile e-learning network which operates totally decentralised with the help of an underlying ad hoc network architecture. Furthermore the concept of ad hoc messaging network (AMNET) is used as basis system architecture for our approach to implement a platform for pervasive mobile e-learning.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Drechsler2005,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Drechsler, Denis},
  title     = {Unemployment in Germany and the Eurosclerosis debate},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9036},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Many European countries have experienced a significant increase of unemployment in recent years. This paper reviews several theoretical models that try to explain this phenomenon. Predominantly, these models claim a link between the poor performance of European labor markets and the high level of market regulation. Commonly referred to as the Eurosclerosis debate, prominent approaches consider insider-outsider relationships, search-models, and the influence of hiring and firing costs on equilibrium employment. The paper presents empirical evidence of each model and studies the relevance of the identified rigidities as a determinant of high unemployment in Europe. Furthermore, a case study analyzes the unemployment problem in Germany and critically discusses new reform efforts. In particular this section analyzes whether the recently enacted Hartz reforms can induce higher employment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Eberhardt2005,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Eberhardt, Bj{\"o}rn},
  title     = {Public pensions in the U.S.},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9058},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Contents: The Public Old Age Insurance of the U.S. -Historical overview -Technical details -Individual equity and social adequacy The Economic Problem of Old Age -Risks and economic security -Old age, retirement, and idividual precaution -Insurance markets, market failures, and social insurance -Options for public pension systems The Problems of Social Security -The financial balance of OASDI -Causes of the long-run problems -Rates of return -Conclusion - The case for Social Security reform Proposed Remedies -Full, partial, or no privatization? -The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security -Kotlikoff's Personal Security System -The Diamond-Orszag Three-Part plan},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Becker2004,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Becker, Ralf E.},
  title     = {Revisiting public investment},
  issn      = {0948-7549},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9025},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {The consumption equivalence method is the theoretical basis of public cost-benefit analysis. Consumption equivalence public capital prices are explicitly introduces in order to sufficiently care for the opportunity cost of public expenditure. This can solve the dispute about the social rate of discount within public cost-benefit analysis witch was generated on a criterion looking similar to the capital value formula, known as Lind's approach. The social rate of discount is liberated from opportunity costs considerations and the discounting away of the effects for future welfare vanishes. The corresponding question whether one should accept a positive value of the pure rate of social time preference is an old issue. Its current state between the prescriptive and descriptive view can also be interpreted as a consequence of the oversimplification of standard cost- benefit analysis. But apart from an economic self-process the pure rate of social time preference is also defined as a business-as-usual value of social distance discounting. Hence, a political choice has to be made about this rate which is free in principal.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Becker2004,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Becker, Ralf E.},
  title     = {General classification of social choice situations},
  series = {Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeitr{\"a}ge},
  journal   = {Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeitr{\"a}ge},
  number    = {46},
  issn      = {0948-7549},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9012},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {An exhaustive and disjoint decomposition of social choice situations is derived in a general set theoretical framework using the new tools of the Lifted Pareto relation on the power set of social states representing a pre-choice comparison of choice option sets. The main result is the classification of social choice situations which include three types of social choice problems. First, we usually observe the common incompleteness of the Pareto relation. Second, a kind of non-compactness problem of a choice set of social states can be generated. Finally, both can be combined. The first problem root can be regarded as natural everyday dilemma of social choice theory whereas the second may probably be much more due to modeling technique implications. The distinction is enabled at a very general set theoretical level. Hence, the derived classification of social choice situations is applicable on almost every relevant economic model.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{GronauWildemannZaeh2004,
  author    = {Gronau, Norbert and Wildemann, Horst and Z{\"a}h, Michael F.},
  title     = {Entwicklung und Betrieb wandlungsf{\"a}higer Auftragsabwicklungssysteme},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6791},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {Mittelst{\"a}ndische Industrieunternehmen setzen f{\"u}r ihre betrieblichen Abl{\"a}ufe Planungs- und Ausf{\"u}hrungssysteme ein. Aufgrund der Turbulenzen auf Absatz- und Beschaffungsm{\"a}rkten kann die Wirtschaftlichkeit und Wettbewerbsf{\"a}higkeit dieser Unternehmen nur durch permanente Anpassungen der Organisationsstrukturen und -abl{\"a}ufe erfolgen. In der Praxis zeigt sich eine unzureichende technologische Anpassungsf{\"a}higkeit der heute eingesetzten Standardsoftwaresysteme. Diese lassen zwar w{\"a}hrend der Einf{\"u}hrungsphase vielf{\"a}ltige Konfigurationsm{\"o}glichkeiten zu, Ver{\"a}nderungen im laufenden Betrieb sind aber meist nur mit großem Aufwand m{\"o}glich. Hier sind die Softwarehersteller in Zukunft zunehmend gefordert, wandlungsf{\"a}hige Auftragsabwicklungssysteme zu entwickeln. {\"U}ber die Entwicklungsphase (Build-Time) hinaus muss auch parallel zur Betriebsphase (Run-Time) der technische Fortschritt aufgrund von ge{\"a}nderten Anforderungen durch entsprechende Softwarereleases synchronisiert werden.},
  subject      = {Auftragsabwicklung},
  language  = {de}
}
@book{PetersenRose2003,
  author    = {Petersen, Hans-Georg and Rose, Manfred},
  title     = {Zu einer Fundamentalreform der deutschen Einkommensteuer : die Einfachsteuer des "Heidelberger Steuerkreises"},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8886},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Inhalt: Dynamische Interpretation der Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit Integrierte Einkommens- und Gewinnbesteuerung Zins- und Sparbereinigung Individuelle Fairness und Familiengerechtigkeit Einfachheit f{\"u}r Administration und B{\"u}rger Auswirkungen auf Steueraufkommen und Einkommensverteilung Generationengerechtigkeit Begleitende Maßnahmen Systemdynamik und Wirtschaftswachstum},
  language  = {de}
}
@book{ScholdererBalderjahn2000,
  author    = {Scholderer, Joachim and Balderjahn, Ingo},
  title     = {Marktorientierung und Unternehmensperformance in der deutschen Biotechnologieindustrie},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9199},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Anhand einer Nettostichprobe von 59 Unternehmen der deutschen Biotechnologieindustrie wurden die Zusammenh{\"a}nge von Marktorientierung, Faktoren der Unternehmensumwelt, Relationship-Management- Orientierungen, Innovation und Unternehmensperformance untersucht. Unter Verwendung pfadanalytischer Modelle konnten signifikante globale Effekte des Umweltfaktors Marktturbulenz auf die Unternehmensperformance und der Relationship-Management-Orientierungen Push-Marketing und Qualit{\"a}tsorientierung auf Innovation gesichert werden. Die klassischen Marktorientierungsvariablen Kundenorientierung, Konkurrenzorientierung und interfunktionale Koordination hatten dagegen keine konsistenten Effekte. Moderatoranalysen weisen jedoch darauf hin, daß die Zusammenh{\"a}nge {\"u}ber verschiedene Gesch{\"a}ftsfelder innerhalb der Biotechnologie so stark streuen, daß eine aggregierte Analyse "der" Biotechnologieindustrie nicht zu sinnvollen Ergebnissen f{\"u}hren kann. Abschließend wird diskutiert, ob das Konzept Marktorientierung in seiner Betonung schneller und flexibler Reaktionen auf {\"A}nderungen in der Unternehmensumwelt {\"u}berhaupt geeignet ist, marktstrategisches Verhalten in Gesch{\"a}ftsfeldern mit sehr langen Produktentwicklungszeiten zu beschreiben.},
  language  = {de}
}