The primary objective of the IMPRESS project is to establish a Europe-wide methodological framework for analysing the impact of clean production on employment. In addition, the project will produce empirical…
Typically, students are assumed to decide on their optimal investment in education by weighing the costs arising from the acquisition of education with the expected benefit in terms of wages, in other words, by…
The issues addressed here were advanced as part of a project group on integrated sustainable development policy commissioned by the Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gesellschaft. This meant a unification of environmental,…
Working hours flexibility is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. However, there is almost no empirical evidence for the potential employment effects of increasing flexibility of…
The aim of this study was to undertake a European comparative analysis of the determinants and the effects of educational investments on the individual level. The focus of the study was laid on secondary…
This project which started in October 1998 is part of the DFG main topic “Interdisciplinary Research into Firm Foundation”. The main objective of the project is the evaluation of the post entry performance of…
In 1998 Prognos (Basle), formerly ProgTrans AG, and ZEW (Mannheim) developed a kind of economic indicator for the transport industry. The panel comprised of approx. 300 selected experts from the transport industry…
This project intends to close a gap between empirical and theoretical capital market research. The stochastic processes for stock price developments that have so far been derived in theoretical research are only…
Although the lending business is of great importance to the earnings and risk situation of banks, there are few empirical studies on the lending and credit surveillance process. The research project "Loan…
An den internationalen Aktienmärkten kann seit längerem eine zunehmende Institutionalisierung festgestellt werden. Dies bedeutet, dass immer mehr privates Kapital von institutionellen Investoren, wie z. B.…