This project aims to advance the understanding of market design in the presence of political constraints such as re-election motives as well as corruption and favoritism. We will study how corrupt market …
This project investigates the potentials of the Saxon economy and of the Saxon Science system with respect to the Key Enabling Technologies defined by the EU and the so called Future Fields of Saxons Innovation…
The PUBMOTIVE project aimed to analyze the publishing behavior of companies, which has been little studied so far. In particular, its focus was on i) identifying publishing companies and their characteristics, ii)…
The project evaluates the programme "Frontrunner" of the Austrian Federal government. The programme provides financial support to technological leading firms or firms in the process of becoming international…
Pursuing the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commission addresses the malfunctioning of the Internal Market due to corporate tax obstacles. In this context, effective tax burdens reveal possible…
In the year 2006, ZEW had developed the Country Index for Family Enterprises on behalf of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. The objective of this index is an international comparison of investment locations…
The goal of the project is to collect and to structure economic data for the cluster ICT, media, cultural economy for the purpose of statistical analyses. The cluster ICT, media, cultural economy includes…
Country-by-country reporting (CbCR) aims at improving tax transparency by mandating multinational firms to disclose certain tax-related information on a per-country basis. The data is supposed to help tax…
The aim of this study was to identify the growth potential of telecommunications operators (“telcos”) in countries with a highly developed industrial sector, such as Germany, Switzerland and Austria, in the age of…
The energy transition leads to new challenges for power grids. On one hand, this applies to transmission grids, which transport electricity from coast to inland or across Europe. Distribution grids on the…
With regard to reform blueprints for the future of the Eurozone, a comprehensive systematizing meta-analysis will be prepared. This meta-analysis will capture not only the content of the reform…
In this research project we aim to algorithmically determine the optimal interest rate policy of central banks by means of realistic model-based simulations of the economy. To carry out these simulations, the…