The study is focused on assessing the fiscal implications of climate change adaptation within the EU. In the first step of the project, the theoretical framework for analysing adaptation will be developed. In the…
Though mainstream economic measures such as GDP are useful measures with great influence on both public and private decisions, they are flawed as measures of human welfare. In addition, they give little…
This project focuses on typical transaction costs which are faced by investors when they shift the components of their mutual fund portfolios. In consideration of the flat-rate savings tax (Abgeltungsteuer), …
Since many years the analysis of labor market policies in Germany is of high interest for researchers and politicians alike. Results are, however, in several cases contradictory or ignore important aspects. This…
The central part of the project was the empirical analysis of the supply structure of the market for renewable energy in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and of the relevant structure of intermediate…
The aim of this project is to study the extent to which employers provide wage insurance at the firm level. Particular emphasis is given to the role trade unions may play in enabling risk-sharing contracts…
Detailed analyses concerning the form, structure and dynamics of employment in new high-tech ventures have been rare because of lacking data. In order to fill this gap data of the ZEW High-tech Start-up Panel 2007…
Based on the expertise "Kinderkomponente für Geringverdienerhaushalte", see Schnabel et al. (2007), the fiscal and distributional effects of other reforms of the children's allowance are calculated. Besides…
Compared to road and air transportation, rail transportation is the more environmentally friendly means of travel. In intermodal competition, however, regulations on the tax burden imposed on means of…
National tax policy and the tax revenues it triggers cannot be analysed without reference to the international context. The main reason for this is a mobile tax base. The production factors capital and…
The "House of Education for children from 3 to 10" is an educational intervention in the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in which 33 primary schools and 48 kindergartens participate. One school and one or more…
In the search for economic instruments to mitigate global climate change, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has recently been embraced by proponents in both developing and developed…