Producer-oriented Services play an important role for the economy of Baden-Wuerttemberg, which is characterised by a large share of manufacturing in total regional GDP. At the same time, manufacturing is strongly…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the German Federal Ministry of Finance organize a bi-annual Public Finance Dialogue (PFD) in Berlin, an exclusive workshop that brings together policy-makers,…
The project analyses, how R&D expenditure of firms in Saxony-Anhalt can be increased in order to raise the R&D intensity of the Saxony-Anhaltine economy. Based on an investigation of obstacles to innovation and…
Digital marketplaces and platforms are characterised by reduced costs for storing, searching for, and retrieving information. They also have low communication costs enabling remotely located partners to coordinate…
For a long time, merger control by competition authorities concentrated on the acquisition of major shares of companies or entire mergers while largely treating minority shareholdings as unproblematic. Only very…
The digitalization of the economy is considered the most important development since the industrial revolution. The economic locational factors for digital business models are thus of high relevance for policy…
The purpose of the SEEK project "European Network on Better Institutions – ZEW ENBI" is to establish a network of European research institutes under the direction of ZEW. This network shall carry out applied …
This SEEK project aimed at a deeper understanding of inequalities both within and across regions in Germany and Europe. The project hence combines expertise in Regional Labour and Public Economics and mainly seeks…
The general objective of the study is to better understand both the current role and the full potential of the EU budget in fostering public sector reforms in the Member States.
Jointly with a team around Professor Dirk Sliwka, University of Cologne, and Prof. Patrick Kampkötter, University of Tübingen, and on behalf of the Institute for Labour Market Research (IAB), this project develops…
In this project, we analyse whether entrepreneurs are able to use former professional networks to recruit well-matched employees for their companies. Moreover, we examine how the closure of a young business…
As a result of the fourth industrial revolution, the economy is increasingly becoming digitized and automated. In particular, the linkage between IT and business processes (Industry 4.0) provides firms with ever…