Policies that promote start-ups are increasingly taken up by governments as measures to fight unemployment and to overcome crises. However, it remains uncertain whether short-term policies like that also…
This project analyses the interaction between the recent economic crises in Europe and the incentives for private provision of online public goods. Focusing on Wikipedia, one of the most salient examples of an…
One uncontroversial conclusion from four years of European debt crisis is the need for a general overhaul of fiscal governance. However, any reforms must be based on a sound understanding of the (fiscal) …
The goal of the project is to analyse the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms’, sectors’ and countries’ resilience in times of economic crisis.Firms using ICT in a smart way may be…
In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees. …
In this project, we aim to identify the medium- and long-term causal effects of attending kindergarten in Germany. More specifically, we will analyse empirically whether longer kindergarten attendance results in…
Draft of a scientific article in German and carrying out an empirical study on the subject of ex ante regulation and investment in new communications infrastructure. The empirical research project will examine the…
Extensive monitoring by the media, political and scientific attention make gasoline retailing an interesting object of investigation. Impacts of the introduction of the market transparency platform in Germany will…
In this project, we study the evolution of wage mobility in Eastern Germany before unification and during the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. We plan to exploit German pension register…
In this project, merger activities and their interaction with the residual supply index or concentration rates are analyzed. Subject of study are the big players in the European electricity markets and the impact…
The project aims to establish innovation indicators for firms located in rural and urban areas in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany for the years 2014 to 2023. For this purpose, the sample of firms…
In this project we support the development of specific questions which will be included in the questionnaire of the "National Education Panel Study" (NEPS). The focus of these questions is on topics which are key…