The project will consider the impact of speculative trading on oil futures prices. Though many studies have considered its impact on the spot market, there is no research on the effect of speculation on the term…
Over the course of the previous decade, price fluctuations on international commodity markets have been observed to be significantly higher than in the decades before. While in the 1980’s and 90’s price…
Deploying Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) is seen as a critical factor for maintaining competitiveness in manufacturing. KETs offer new routes for technological innovation in many industries and can be a main…
The aim of this research is to determine the extent and scope of innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the city of Berlin in the years 2010 to 2012 as well as the planned innovation activities…
The Austrian Report on Research and Technology summarises state and development of research and technology in Austria and presents government activities to promote scientific research and innovation in Austria. As…
In 2011 the Climate Change Department of the NDRC announced concrete plans to start an emission trading market in China. Seven pilot regions were chosen to establish emission trading schemes by 2013/2014…
In the course of the current political debate, the opposition parties of the German parliament have presented several tax reform proposals which aim at reviving net wealth taxation in Germany. These proposals…
The “Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau” (KfW) has been establishing a firm panel on the basis of paper-and-pencil interviews which is representative of medium-sized and large companies since 2002. Companies …
Most contributions in the field of fiscal federalism explain a jurisdiction’s performance by the role of institutions and political or economic restrictions. A more recent literature, however, also points to the…
The purpose of the project is to monitor the German cultural and creative economy and to analyse its strengths and weaknesses by several indicators. A yearly changing topic will be anlysed based on a firm-level…
Real estate markets are of high overall economic importance. Around 20 percent of overall value added can be traced to real estate activities. The major part of private wealth is held in real estate. In spite…
In this project, start-ups in the German ICT-Sector and selected characteristics of these firms are examined. It is analysed how the number of start-ups has developed between 1995 and 2011, how the ICT-start-ups…