Projects

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.11.2019 – 31.07.2021

    Reporting Behavior and Transparency in European Banks’ Country-by-Country Reports

    Country-by-country reporting aims at improving tax transparency by requiring multinational firms to disclose certain tax-related data on a per-country basis. The reports are supposed to help tax authorities in…

  2. Project // 01.11.2019 – 30.06.2020

    Evaluation of the KfW Programme "ERP Digitalisation and Innovation Loan"

    The project evaluated the programme "ERP Digitalisation and Innovation Loan" which is run by the state-owned banking group KfW. The Evaluation focused on programme activities during the years 2017 and 2019. The…

  3. Project // 01.10. – 30.11.2019

    Distributional Effects of Family Policy Measures: Empirical Evidence Based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

    The project analyzes the distributional impact of family policy measures based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). 

  4. Project // 01.10.2019 – 31.10.2022

    Economics of Climate Change – topic coordination: Climate protection: Instruments and policies after COP21

    With their decisions on production, regulation and consumption, business, politics and society have a strong influence on how climate change will develop in the future. At the same time, we lack knowledge in…

  5. Project // 01.10.2019 – 30.06.2022

    Networks of Innovative Firms (NETINU)

    The project aims at developing new indicators for measuring networks of innovative firms, using different data sources and employing different methods:

    1. Interactions among firms and between firms and other…
  6. Project // 01.10.2019 – 30.09.2021

    Additionality of Public Support to EFRE Co-financed R&D Projects in Saxony 2014-2018

    The project aims at analysing input and output additionality of publicly funded R&D projects in Saxony in the EU funding period started in 2014. The analysis looks at projects that were funded by the Federal State…

  7. Project // 01.09. – 30.11.2019

    R&D in the Mechanical Engineering Industry and the Planned R&D Tax Incentive

    The project aims at analysing three issues related to the definition of research and development (R&D) with respect to a planned R&D tax incentive in Germany:

    • Evaluating the practicality of the R&D definition of…
  8. Project // 01.09. – 30.11.2019

    Detailed Analysis of Potential Demand for Existing and Future Sites for Technology Parks of the L-Bank in Baden-Wuerttemberg

    The project (coordination: Prognos AG)analyses the significance of three demand components for technology parks in Baden-Wuerttemberg, considering both existing parks (Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Göppingen,…

  9. Project // 01.08.2019 – 31.07.2020

    Mannheim in the Competition for Talent - An Analysis of Factors to Increase the Local Supply of Highly Qualified Employees

    The population share of high-skilled workers has a positive effect on regional development. The higher the qualification in a region, the higher the value added, productivity and wages.  Although the proportion of…

  10. Project // 01.08.2019 – 30.04.2020

    Contributions to Innovation Monitoring of Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region

    The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region (MRN) is funded within the framework of the Baden-Württemberg state programme „Förderung von regionalem Innovationsmanagement in Baden-Württemberg ". Part of this project was…

  11. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.12.2020

    College Openings and Local Economic Development

    The opening and expansion of higher education institutions are often considered by decision-makers as promising place-based policies to decrease disparities between regions. This project investigated how the…

  12. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.10.2020

    MannheimTaxation – Payroll Taxes, Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurial Activity

    The objective of this research project – which is financed by the Leibniz-ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation – is to study the causal effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on the probability to become…