• After the US Election: Managers Expect Rise in Trade with China
• Modest Outlook on Economic Growth
• Private Domestic Demand Continues to Grow in Importance

In this paper, we present the first dynamic scoring exercise linking a multi‐country microsimulation and DSGE models for all countries of the European Union. We illustrate our novel methodology analysing a…

The study analyses data collected among a group of young male refugees who participated in a randomized experiment. Refugees were randomly assigned to a soccer project, which aimed at facilitating labour market…

Social media open up new possibilities for firms to exploit information from various external sources. Does this information help firms to become more innovative? Combining firm-level survey data with…

• Expectations for Chinese Economy Continue to Rise
• 31 analysts participated in the March survey, which was conducted during the period 28 February till 16 March 2017

• Konjunkturerwartungen bleiben stabil
• Euroraum: Verbesserter Ausblick für die europäische Konjunktur
• USA: Anfangseuphorie flacht ab
• Japan: Konjunkturerwartungen leicht verbessert
• Großbritannien:…

Im September 2016 konnte das Reallabor Asylsuchende im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in zwei Gemeinschaftsunterkünften eine Befragung bei Geflüchteten durchführen. Insgesamt nahmen 370 Personen an der Befragung teil,…

We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains in M&A deals. We argue that tax differentials distort the efficient allocation of productive…

In this paper, we analyse the disaggregated pattern of German software firm locations. We utilise a comprehensive data set of three million street level geocoded firm obser-vations in Germany as well as detailed…