The TETRIS project aimed to explore the economic and industrial impacts as well as the prospects for achieving technology transfer associated with the implementation of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms. Comprehensive…
This project explores the feasibility of an evaluation study regarding the operations of the German "Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit", a task force of the Federal Customs Administration. In particular, the project…
Environmental issues play a role of ever increasing significance in the discussion of the development of future technologies in Germany, as it is primarily the economies of developed nations that are charged with…
The principles of budgetary completeness and transparency are indispensable elements of fiscal surveillance in the European Union. Within this context, this study deals with the leading question to which extent…
Basic research in life sciences in Germany is well established in international comparison. A central problem of the life sciences in Germany, however, concerns the transfer of research results into commercial…
In this project, we analyse the differences in employment durations of workers within the same enterprise. Apart from well-established theoretical approaches, such as human capital theory or search and matching…
The student performance studies PIRLS and PISA suggest that the equality of educational opportunity decreases strongly between primary and secondary schooling in Germany. This project analysed the determinants…
Among researchers from energy sciences and economics the topic of "Hydrogen as Energy Carrier" is being hotly debated. On the one hand there will be enthusiastic visions of the hydrogen economy, bolstering…