Many observers argue that the European monetary union will not survive unless it is complemented by a ‘fiscal union’. In this context, the introduction of a fiscal capacity at the euro area level as proposed by…
The project aims at assessing the economic relevance of credit scoring. The central topics are the usefulness of credit scores for the prediction of credit risks as well the effects of credit scoring on future …
The debate on the competences between the EU and its member states has risen in line with the most recent financial and debt crisis. While some supporter of the EU argue that its competences are still too small…
Securing the financing constitutes is a real problem for many startup companies. So the hope is that Business Angels (BA) get more important as financial resource. BAs are organized in networks and organizations…
In the recent decades, economic research has begun to intensively analyze the role of agents’ expectations for economic outcomes. Academic studies acknowledge that the link between a piece of information and…
The purpose of the project is to analyse how firms’ extrovertedness affects their success. By extrovertedness we mean firms’ active use of social media and their passive presence in social media (media exposure).…
The KETs Observatory provides both quantitative and qualitative information on the development and deployment of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and supplies European and national policy-makers and business…
Reserve power markets face the challenge of balancing short-term fluctuations in the transportation grid to stabilize the power system’s frequency. The current reserve power market was designed at a time when…
Against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone, the project has two objectives. First, the impact on the potential volume of work and thus on the potential output in the European crisis countries…
The two German federal states of Bavaria and Hesse recently filed a lawsuit in the German supreme court against the current German vertical equalization scheme, which regulates the financial relationship of the…
The project aims to strengthen competencies of the Personnel Economics research area in analyzing multi-dimensional linked employer-employee data. It builds on two novel longitudinal matched employer-employee…
This project aims at analysing the complementarity of investment in patents and trademarks for firm performance by employing an extensive data set of European firms. Patents and trademarks are both intellectual…