The focus of this project was on the past and future role of renewable sources of energy in the strategy of European electricity companies. The project team comprised energy researchers and electricity utilities…
This research project aims at making technological and economic information on renewable energies available on the Internet in a standardised form. We want to make it possible for users to obtain data on the…
In this project, ZEW collects and analyses a set of indicators on innovation and start-up activity that serves the annual review on Germany’s performance in research and innovation which is prepared by the Expert…
Prognos (Basel) and ZEW (Mannheim), drawing on support by German Parcel, have developed a business sentiment indicator for the transport industry. The main idea of this Transport Market Barometer is to utilise the…
Das System der Alterssicherung in Deutschland steht nach mehreren Reformen in den Neunzigerjahren erneut auf dem Prüfstand. Zwei Gruppen, die von einer möglichen Neuausrichtung des auf mehreren Säulen basierenden…
The objective of the study was to find policy options on national and European level based on the results of the international climate negotiations and recent trends in European climate policy. We analyzed the…
Corporate governance is the complex system of legal, institutional and market-based control devices of large companies. The functioning of this system is, however, only weakly explained by economic theory and…
The economic forces of integration are increasingly challenging the European countries national economic policies. On the revenue side, individual governments face difficulties in raising funds from mobile tax…