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…
The introduction of the Bachelor- and Master's degrees in Germany occurs in the framework of the harmonisation of the European higher education system, the so-called Bologna process. A central goal of the…
The project investigated the effects of adaptation strategies to climate change with a focus on the insurance industry in Germany. In a first step, we presented the current state of research on the expected direct…
The economic importance of the Asian-Pacific Region, India and Russia has risen significantly. Against this background, the objective of this study is to put forward reliable information on the effective tax…
The study is focused on assessing the fiscal implications of climate change adaptation within the EU. In the first step of the project, the theoretical framework for analysing adaptation will be developed. In the…
Though mainstream economic measures such as GDP are useful measures with great influence on both public and private decisions, they are flawed as measures of human welfare. In addition, they give little…
This project focuses on typical transaction costs which are faced by investors when they shift the components of their mutual fund portfolios. In consideration of the flat-rate savings tax (Abgeltungsteuer), …
Since many years the analysis of labor market policies in Germany is of high interest for researchers and politicians alike. Results are, however, in several cases contradictory or ignore important aspects. This…
The central part of the project was the empirical analysis of the supply structure of the market for renewable energy in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and of the relevant structure of intermediate…
The aim of this project is to study the extent to which employers provide wage insurance at the firm level. Particular emphasis is given to the role trade unions may play in enabling risk-sharing contracts…
Detailed analyses concerning the form, structure and dynamics of employment in new high-tech ventures have been rare because of lacking data. In order to fill this gap data of the ZEW High-tech Start-up Panel 2007…
Based on the expertise "Kinderkomponente für Geringverdienerhaushalte", see Schnabel et al. (2007), the fiscal and distributional effects of other reforms of the children's allowance are calculated. Besides…