Following pension reforms aiming to reduce the demographic burden on pay-as-you-go pension schemes, Germany and many other countries introduced substantial tax benefits to set incentives for third pillar…
In the coalition agreement of 2018, the federal government set the goal to provide a pension information covering all three pillars of retirement income. This means that the public pension entitlements as well…
In this project we will first train a computer vision model from ground up. The resulting machine learning model will be the first to be fully optimised for the built environment, offering an alternative…
The objective of the project is to identify and construct forward-looking indicators in order to assess the developments in the markets of selected sectors and regularly deliver them to Evonik Industries AG…
From 2013 to 2021 the Centre of European Economic Research (ZEW) and one of China’s leading universities, the Fudan University in Shanghai, conducted a monthly survey on the Chinese Economy. This “China…
The German real estate finance index is based on a survey conducted by ZEW. In the first part of the survey, experts in the market for real estate finance are asked to evaluate current financing conditions as…
The ZEW Financial Market Survey has been carried out on a monthly basis since December 1991. It reveals the financial market’s expectations on the development of important international economies. Currently…
This project continues ZEW’s line of research on EU fiscal institutions. The focus is on documenting potential political biases in existing and newly created European instruments and then studying their…