The aim of the project is to document the role of German private banks in the German economy. The study will consist of two parts. In the first part, the results on the role of private banks for export financing…
In the last decade the global landscape of tax transparency has gone through a revolution. Multinationals are facing an increasingly challenging tax environment which ranges from progressively more stringent…
In 2016, the German manufacturing of machinery and equipment industry’s labour productivity was less than in 2005. It increased until 2008 but dropped significantly in the crisis year 2009. It was not until 2011…
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…
Do concerns of intergenerational mobility affect redistributive preferences and policy choices? We shed light on these questions both by conducting large-scale online survey experiments with German politicians…
The purpose of the project is to monitor the process of digitalisation of Baden-Württemberg’s economy. The analysis is mainly based on a representative business survey and allows differentiating with respect to…
The project "Incentive power and sustainability of different incentive regulation regimes in German electricity distribution" deals with the development of electricity distribution grids, which are an important…
The Great Recession has shown that it is not only the size of globally active banks but also their complexity and interconnectedness that contribute to the cross-border transmission of financial crises. While…
The aim of this study is to compile data on the share of firms with innovations in all firms ('Innovator share') for different countries and sectors over a longer period of time and to analyse the development of…
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…
A stability-oriented monetary policy in Europe can only succeed in the long-run if it is accompanied by political consensus of its member countries. This holds despite vast institutional features such as…