The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2016. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…
Das vorliegende Projekt baut auf den vom ZEW im Auftrag der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen durchgeführten Simulationen von Reformoptionen für eine verbesserte materielle Absicherung von Kindern auf. Es…
The European Tax Analyzer is a simulation model to compute forward-looking effective tax burdens. Up to now, the target values of the European Tax Analyzer are reported in absolute numbers and indicate the …
Producer-oriented Services play an important role for the economy of Baden-Wuerttemberg, which is characterised by a large share of manufacturing in total regional GDP. At the same time, manufacturing is strongly…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the German Federal Ministry of Finance organize a bi-annual Public Finance Dialogue (PFD) in Berlin, an exclusive workshop that brings together policy-makers,…
The project analyses, how R&D expenditure of firms in Saxony-Anhalt can be increased in order to raise the R&D intensity of the Saxony-Anhaltine economy. Based on an investigation of obstacles to innovation and…
The general objective of the study is to better understand both the current role and the full potential of the EU budget in fostering public sector reforms in the Member States.
Digital marketplaces and platforms are characterised by reduced costs for storing, searching for, and retrieving information. They also have low communication costs enabling remotely located partners to coordinate…
For a long time, merger control by competition authorities concentrated on the acquisition of major shares of companies or entire mergers while largely treating minority shareholdings as unproblematic. Only very…
The digitalization of the economy is considered the most important development since the industrial revolution. The economic locational factors for digital business models are thus of high relevance for policy…
The purpose of the SEEK project "European Network on Better Institutions – ZEW ENBI" is to establish a network of European research institutes under the direction of ZEW. This network shall carry out applied …
This SEEK project aimed at a deeper understanding of inequalities both within and across regions in Germany and Europe. The project hence combines expertise in Regional Labour and Public Economics and mainly seeks…