Over the years, the importance of digitalization has been increasingly accelerating and influencing production, business processes as well as the creation of new business models. Consequently, it is expected that…
The benefits and effectiveness of tax incentives must be proven in the same way as direct subsidies. Economic relevance, efficiency, transparency and sustainability are further criteria in which tax reliefs…
Economic activity is increasingly shifting from offline to online markets, which provide enormous opportunities for welfare gains. At the same time, network effects, the availability of big data and other typical…
FRAME will develop a new generation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models that will advance the state of the art by allowing for the first time realistic estimates of the impact of public…
The world of work is becoming increasingly digitized. This process induces a fundamental change of the world of work, which brings along new challenges for different aspects of social policy. This project focuses…
Extreme hydrological events, such as those which recently occurred in Austria, Switzerland and Germany have focused the attention of the European community on the vulnerability to natural hazards. In the same…
Increased refugee immigration to Europe in 2015 still constitutes a major policy concern for host countries. At that time, potential impacts of immigration on host countries’ societies and economies were…
We combine data on household finances (the Household Finance and Consumption Survey) with detailed information on tax and social security systems across Europe. This combination provides a unique dataset to…
The Montreal Protocol is widely regarded as one of the most successful international environmental agreements. Despite its recognized success in fighting the ozone hole, there have been also some concerns related…
Multiple crises of different nature showed in recent years that the social and economic status quo is vulnerable, even in an economically highly developed and seemingly political stable country such as…
In 2013, the European Commission introduced a so-called country-by-country reporting (CbCR) for EU financial institutions, demanding the annual public disclosure of certain tax-related information on a …
The aim of this study is as follows:(1) Defining the concept of competitiveness at different levels of economic units: - firms (micro level), - sectors (meso level),- regional/national economies (macro level). In…