Applied (computable) general equilibrium models (CGE models) are an important tool used in the international research community in order to quantify the macroeconomic effects of politico-economic measures.…
The project aims at analysing possible regulatory intervention to increase energy efficiency from an economic viewpoint. Increasing energy efficiency means increasing the ratio of output over employed energy, i.e.…
The aim of the project was to carry out comparable surveys about firms’ innovation behaviour for a large number of OECD countries in and beyond Europe.The project focused on the following two questions:
Evaluating state subsidies contributes to an improvement of efficiency in the allocation of public funds. Especially with regard to tax expenditures, there is need for external evaluation. The objective of this…
Apart from the Common Agricultural Policy, Regional Policy is the most important policy field of the EU budget. While the goal to reduce regional welfare disparities in the EU is generally accepted in the EU,…
The implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) has increased the productivity of industrialized economies in the last two decades. However, the process of adoption, use and diffusion of ICT…
It is possible to quantify the structural unemployment either on an aggregate level using the time-series (e.g. estimation of the NAIRU) or on a more disaggregated level (e.g. regional data for estimation of the…
The Basic Income promoted by Dieter Althaus (prime minister of the federal state Thüringen) combines several proposals for reforms of the german tax and transfer system. Elements of this Basic Income are: e.g.…
The influence of mergers and acquisitions on the innovation activity of companies represents a much-examined area of research. So far, only little consideration has been given to the case of a “de-merger”, i.e.…
As described in the German Strategy for Sustainable Development, it is a main target of the German government to increase the resource productivity of the economy: until the year 2020 it should double, the…
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…
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…