The car industry is one of the most innovation intensive industries in the European Union. It invests around EUR 20 m per year in R&D, thus being one of the EU’s largest R&D investors. Technological progress is…
Recent developments in ICT and the growth of the emerging economies of China and India have generated a process of offshoring in which some activities move away from Europe. Sound policy responses require an…
Ideas and innovations drive the success of companies and even of entire economies. Ultimately, it is a motivated workforce that determines the effectiveness and competitiveness of organizations in knowledge…
The goal of this project is to analyse the relationship between offshoring and labour income risk. The project thereby sheds light on an aspect which has so far received little attention in the literature but…
The cross-border company taxation in the member states of the European Union and the OECD distorts investment and financing decisions and hence the allocation of capital. This results from differing tax levels…
The project aimed at developing and assessing policy instruments for the adaptation to climate change with an integrated economic approach. In particular, existing structures of financing and incentivizing…
This project analyzes the determinants of European banks’ risk behavior, with particular attention on the financial crisis. Special emphasis is placed on retail banks (savings banks and cooperative banks), who…
The aim of this study is to assess the contributions of investment banking to productivity and growth of the German economy. To this end we will analyse both the economic benefits and the risks stemming from…
Large parts of corporate investment consist of corporate takeovers. The aim of the research proposal is to analyze empirically in how far taxes influence such takeovers. The project’s first research question is…
Recently, natural resources have once again gained increasing public interest. Relevant issues are the security of supply and raw material prices, but also environmental damages caused for instance by mining.…
Highspeed internet access is a key pre-requisite for new services to households such as Video on Demand. Moreover, it might also be a low-budget alternative for emerging enterprises with comparably low data…
Background:Changing the energy systems to climate friendly and sustainable systems is one of the largest challenges facing society today. The characteristics of the innovation systems with respect to new and…