This project is a contribution to the European Commission's Report on European Competitiveness 2010. It aims to analyse the role of foreign-owned firms for R&D and innovation in the European Union. A special focus…
The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns that such indicators should be…
The project aimed on building the groundwork for a future cooperation between the Department of Environmental and Resource Economics at ZEW and the Center for Energy Economics and Strategy Studies at Fudan…
The German system of higher education currently faces many reforms concerning the organization of degrees, the profiling of universities and financing aspects. These reforms are mainly said to aim at the …
The German Taxpayer Panel which is provided by the Federal Statistical Office and which has recently been developed, offers very rich data for the empirical analysis of tax effects. So far, this data set has…
The core of this project is the analysis of research questions in various areas of applied competition policy. It aims at promoting economic and econometric work in competition policy cases and regulation issues.…
The aim of the project was to define the operational determinants of IT outsourcing, using data of the ZEW ICT-survey and adequate statistically-econometric methods.Central to this analysis was the question of…
Companies that newly enter the market face the challenge of generating a competitive advantage over their rivals. Research and development activities (R&D) as well as the implementation of product or process…
This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "An infrastructure for the analysis of social networks" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It considers networks for entertaining…
Market-oriented reforms regularly encounter resistance among the general public. Even reforms that are considered to be efficient by economic experts are often rejected by voters e.g., based on fairness…
Legal interest rate restrictions have been a controversial issue among economists for centuries. In practice, several countries have imposed different rules on interest rate ceilings as well as the…
Emission Trading is seen as one of the most important instruments to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases efficiently and to prevent dramatic climate changes.In general it is expected that a higher degree of…