The student performance studies PIRLS and PISA suggest that the equality of educational opportunity decreases strongly between primary and secondary schooling in Germany. This project analysed the determinants…
In this project, we analyse the differences in employment durations of workers within the same enterprise. Apart from well-established theoretical approaches, such as human capital theory or search and matching…
Syndication, which is the common financing of a project or an investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many segments of the financial market (e.g. credit…
Among researchers from energy sciences and economics the topic of "Hydrogen as Energy Carrier" is being hotly debated. On the one hand there will be enthusiastic visions of the hydrogen economy, bolstering…
In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICT) have diffused rapidly in both economy and private life. A differentiated look at the tendencies of the ICT diffusion shows that not all population…
The positive correlation of transport and economic developmet has in many cases been empirically tested and asserted. Nonetheless, a multitude of technically oriented investigations further results that contradict…
The project FAZIT analysed current and future developments of the IT and media sector in the state of Baden-Württemberg as well as the significance of IT and media technologies for economy and society for the time…
This project continues on the CEPAM framework, which provides the IPTS with a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that accommodates rigorous and comprehensive quantitative assessment of the economic impacts…
Although at the ZEW microeconomic and microeconometric research approaches are dominant, each research department at the ZEW always takes the macroeconomic environment into account as well. “Analysis of Growth and…
Countries react with very different speed to changes in their economic environment caused by globalisation and demographic change. In particular, the big countries of the Euro zone appear to be slow in adjusting…