The economic literature widely recognizes that innovation and investments in new technologies constitute cornerstones for the performance of competitive companies and national economic growth. Innovation and…
Economists and policy analysts know very little about the conditions under which cartels are formed in differing legal environments, about their behaviour towards outsiders or deviating insiders and about their…
In this project, we develop new theoretical insight into the anatomy of hard-core cartels and combine it with a rich data set on the recent German cement cartel. This private data set comprises about 340.000…
The objective of this research project is to gain a deeper understanding of how technological progress contributes to changes in labour market disparities between European regions. The key idea is that different…
This project collects information on the activities of member states and associated countries to meet the objectives of the European Research Area (ERA) through a set of indicators for each of the following five…
This project will use a natural experiment to identify the causal effects of transferring patent rights to the university on the incentives for academic researchers to produce and publicly disseminate new…
This project examined the effects of profit taxation on business performance and innovation through well-defined transmission channels and the resulting policy implications. The project made three key…
Female labour force participation and fertility rates have been very low in Germany, particularly among women with a university degree. Long career breaks and their high opportunity costs may explain both facts.…
The goal of this research project is to estimate the long-run expected returns to R&D and human capital investment by German firms using data from the Mannheim Innovation panel (MIP). The research will build upon…
The objective of the project was 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…
The purpose of the project is to monitor firm formation dynamics in industries relevant for the transformation to clean energy production and energy savings. In a first step, relevant industries are identified and…
For several years the European Commission has tried to facilitate private damage compensation claims against cartelists. The Commission aims for a better deterrence as well as for an appropriate compensation for…