In this project, an international comparison of the possibilities for local governments to borrow money is made. Especially the role of ways and mean advances being more and more responsible for the increasing…
Climate policy and energy security issues are ranking high on the policy agenda in Europe. While the climate change bears the characteristics of a global public good problem this is less the case for energy…
Subject of the report is a comprehensive analysis of the importance of the German Bausparkassen (building societies) system in the federal state of Baden Württemberg. In an indroductory approach the functions …
The project took examples of technologies from the power plant sector to illustrate the interactions between the innovation activities in progress in various countries, giving special consideration to their…
In this project, we intend to propose an efficient child benefit component for low- and middle-earning households in the frame of a reform of the family tax and benefit system (switch from marital splitting with…
Facing the high expenses in family policy, these expenses do not seem well targeted. The matter of regulation of child allowances appears to be one of the problem areas due to the fact that high-income families…
The project aims at analyzing collective bargaining in the German institutional context and highlights innovative forms and processes of collective bargaining. Modern and flexible regulations as a result of…
The Financial Market Survey Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is carried out on a monthly basis by ZEW with the support of Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna. A similar survey for Germany has been conducted by ZEW since…
This project analyses the distributive impacts of the statutory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance focusing on an empirical investigation of the European Union of 25 member states.…
We investigated the distribution of returns to investments in cognitive and self-regulatory skills over the life cycle. In our simulation model, the distribution of returns to education results from the …
In this research project we analyse strategies to increase labour market flexibility of firms. Due to the constant rise in labour market requirements for all participants, firms need to react to the increasing…
Many countries see increasing investment in education, research, development and innovation as a means of expanding production possibilities. Emphasis is placed on innovation policy because it plays a key role in…