The project aims on laying the foundations for to design a market for balancing energy in electricity distribution networks. Such markets currently do not exist, albeit more and more retail customers like small…
The project aims on analyzing, testing, and potentially redesigning the mechanism for the procurement of power plant redispatch in the German transmission grid for electric power.
The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…
The goal of this project is to evaluate the functioning of the market for technologies: the processes through which technologies and intellectual property rights are traded or licensed. Prior studies have…
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…
There is a general consensus among both policy-makers and the general public that tax systems in induztrialized countries are too complicated and that it is generally desirable to have simpler tax systems. This…
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…
Mitigating the effects of climate change represents one of the major global societal challenges. In the framework of the COP21 held in Paris in 2015, the international community agreed to limit global temperature…
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,…
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)…
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…
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…