This project continues ZEW’s line of research on EU fiscal institutions. The focus is on documenting potential political biases in existing and newly created European instruments and then studying their…
In order for the expected growth, productivity and innovation potential of modern ICT applications to be realized on the demand side, the renewal of existing base broadband infrastructure or its (partial)…
The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2019. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…
Private investment in innovation is often at sub-optimal levels because of various types of market failure. In response, governments support private innovation initiatives by lowering their cost through, for…
As part of the project, the most important economic indicators of the film industry in Baden-Württemberg were compiled in a brief expert report for the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in…
To date, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided around 400 cases in the field of direct taxation and has thus considerably shaped the applicable tax law in the EU Member States: Apart from necessary…
Well before the Great Recession, the strikingly successful socio-economic regime of growth of the three decades after WWII came to an end as the smooth matching among technological innovation, productivity growth,…
Recent trends in productivity growth and differences in productivity levels between countries have been increasingly associated with widespread differences between firms within sectors, both in technology use and…
The value of data has become a central topic of the public debate. On the one hand, new, data-based technologies have an enormous innovation potential due to improved information flows and decision quality. On the…
Designing internal labour markets and reducing frictions in employee retention is an important challenge for human resource management (HRM). The aim of the project was twofold. The first part investigated…
During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…
Digitalisation of the economy and society is a significant driver of changes in lifestyles and the work environment. The increasingly decentralized availability and rapidly developing capacity of information and…