If companies make losses, for tax purposes they can be carried forward and set off against future profits. The majority of European countries limit the use of loss carry forwards in case of a sale of the company…
It is widely accepted that new ventures – particularly in the high-technology industry – spur growth of national economies. In these firms, founders are perceived to be eminently influential…
The project’s objective is to sustainably improve the research data infrastructure in Germany by using existing databases to generate new Scientific-Use-Files by means of linkage, on the one part. These databases…
The project (coordination: Prognos AG) evaluates a large-scale research programme of the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) called „ICT 2020 – Research for Innovation“. Between 2007-2017, the…
Many countries in Europe and other parts of the world are characterized by increasing income inequality and low, often stagnating levels of upward mobility. This often goes hand in hand with lower economic…
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 burdens reveal possible…
In the course of the project, economic data will be collected and structured for the cluster ICT, media, cultural economy for the purpose of statistical analyses. The cluster ICT, media, cultural economy includes…
The project develops a manual for logic models for the Ministry of Economy, Work and Housing of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The manual should help to implement logic models for all major funding activities of…
The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an…
The recording of technological capabilities through a comprehensive system of indicators is a central part of the annual report on the conditions of research, technology and innovation of the German…
The policy question analysed in this project was how the incentives of public decision-makers may impede the implementation of admissions rules that are both fair and efficient, reduce social segregation and…
The objective of this research project is to study the causal effect of potential unemployment insurance benefit duration on the actual unemployment duration of unemployed individuals that start a business, their…