The project aims at providing advice to European policy makers about the best strategy for climate change mitigation, within the framework of the Kyoto protocol and the provided flexibility instruments, focusing…
Erfahrungen aus den USA und auch aus einigen europäischen Ländern belegen, dass die institutionelle Ausgestaltung der Altersicherungssysteme einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Venture Capital (VC) Märkte haben…
The latest forecasts show, that we will encounter a strong growth in freight transport in the next few years. The objective of this study is to analyse the potential to bring freight to other means of transport.…
At the Lissabonner EU Summit the Council of Ministers decided that the research policies of EU member countries would undergo a systematic comparison. One element of this comparison forms a benchmarking process…
Technical progress is the most important engine of economic development in developed European national economies. No other factor contributes more to the generation of prosperity. However, technical progress is…
Regarding the future design of climate policy on national, European and international levels, a series of questions have yet to be answered, ranging from the analysis of the incentive effects of different designs…
This project focuses on the quantitative evaluation of reforms of fiscal and social security reforms. These reforms generally have an impact on living conditions and on access to resources and affect the…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is undertaking a study for the Statistical Office Germany in order to discern the possibilities of applying hedonic techniques to quantify quality changes in…
On behalf of the IFC International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) and in cooperation with the Internationale Projekt Consult (IPC) GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, the Turkish financial sector should be analysed. The…
The aim the project was to analyse the relationships between shareholder performance and environmental performance. In the first part we used firm-level data (stock price, sustainability rating, ...) and estimate…