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Germany is under pressure as a business location because of sluggish economic growth. Furthermore, geopolitical tensions are intensifying competitive pressures. What is needed to maintain the country’

Most digital platforms are funded through advertising rather than direct payments. Why? The paper presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar argues that three main factors could explain this

The paper presented in this ZEW Research Seminar studies whether and how migrants transmit industries across space. The authors exploit the forced expulsion of eight million ethnic Germans from Ce

Germany’s Health Finance Commission (FinanzKommission Gesundheit, FKG) is to develop proposals for sustainably stabilising the contribution rates for statutory health insurance. The commission has jus

We conduct a data-based policy evaluation of the first large-scale, EU-wide excess profit tax, implemented during the 2022 European energy crisis to tax the windfall profits of inframarginal electr

The economic situation in Germany remains tense—making reliable indicators for future developments all the more important. In the latest issue of “Wirklich Wirtschaft,” Dr. Lora Pavlova, head of th

In 2024, Germany invested more money in innovation than ever before: according to the latest innovation survey by ZEW Mannheim, companies spent around €213.3 billion on innovation – a new record hi

Coverage of the ongoing Israel-Gaza war varies enormously across the two sides of the conflict and both sides hold sharply different beliefs about the facts of the conflict. The paper presented in