In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees. From…
The project offered a conceptual clarification of eco-innovation (developing atypology) based on an understanding of innovation dynamics, and identify and discuss the main methodological challenges in developing…
The project took a demand-side approach to investigating the informal private equity capital market for technology-intensive start-ups in Germany. Particular attention was paid to the role of so-called Business…
Environmental extended IO tables and externality estimates are extremely useful for the use in and further development of socio-economic tools for sustainability impact assessment, esp. macroeconomic models like…
Dieter Althaus - the Minister President of Thuringia - proposed a so-called unconditional basic income scheme. A study of Opielka/Strengmann-Kuhn (2006) on this proposal is analysed in this project.
The project's aim is to analyse empirically the inflow of employees into unemployment assistance scheme (Arbeitslosengeld 2) and the factors affecting it using the process data of the Federal Labor Office…
The project mainly tackles two questions. On the one hand, the incidence of seniority wages in Germany is calculated. We look if wages increase stronger in Germany with seniority than in other countries. On the…
Representing one research project within the European Competitiveness Report 2007, this research project assessed the competitiveness effects of trading emissions and fostering technologies to meet the EU emission…
The project work is related to the activities of the Federal Environmental Ministry (BMU) especially in the context of the German G8 presidency in the subject area of increasing energy efficiency in important…
This project analyzed the effect of kindergarten attendance on school attainment in Germany. School attainment was measured as secondary school track choice and school grades at age 16. Using longitudinal data…
The Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy (RNIC) brings together eight research institutes and universities to establish an international and interdisciplinary research network on European …