The horizontal merger guidelines define increased market power as the ability of one or more firms to profitably increase prices, reduce output, choice or quality of goods and services, diminish innovation. In…
The investment behaviour of German private households is often characterised by a suboptimally high share of low risk, low interest forms of investment in their portfolio. Especially with respect to longer-term…
stakeholders in the sectors with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the sectoral innovation performance and challenges across the EU25 states. The fundamental question is to what extend and why…
The concept of potential output plays an important role in economic analysis as well as in economic policy discussions. Defined as the productive capacity that would be feasible under full utilization of all…
This report summarises and evaluates main indicators of technological competitiveness of the German economy and provides an outlook for the years ahead. We use intertemporal and cross-country comparisons of…
The relevant aspects of education and continuing training in Germany are to be examined theoretically and empirically against the background of demographic changes. Policy relevance of the topic is to be evaluated…
The taxation of companies operating in more than one Member State in the European Union is undergoing a transformation. The scope of prevalent group taxation regimes in the Member States is currently still largely…
For the measurement and international comparison of effective tax burdens, the ZEW has already achieved a great knowledge. The ZEW has developed own approaches (e.g. European Tax Analyzer) and applies other models…
§ 44b SGB II determines that employment offices (Agenturen für Arbeit) and municipal administrations, as responsible welfare institutions for job-seeking persons, shall establish consortiums in order to administer…
The possible uses of microsimulation models for individual data have been demonstrated on many occasions. Less well-known, on the other hand, are similar models for the business sector. However, quantitative…
The aim of this research project is to develop and to analyse concepts for the comprehensive integration of owner occupied housing in the public support programmes for capital-based old age provision.
During the last decades, enterprises in industrialised countries have increasingly outsourced parts of their value chain to external suppliers. This development is particularly pronounced in the field of IT…