In the year 2006 on behalf of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen ZEW has developed the Country Index for Family Enterprises. The objective of that index is an international comparison of investment locations from…
The project studied the formation of human capital at different stages of the life-cycle based on multidisciplinary research, including views from economics, econometrics, neurobiology, survey analysis, and…
The Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg is among the regions in Europe with the highest research spending per GDP. Among the many factors contributing to this performance, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…
We analyze the effect of market concentration on innovation in the relevant market. Previous work either concentrates on the effect of M&A on the profitability of competitors or on the innovative performance of…
The EU Energy Package, which has been adopted by the European Commission in January 2007, comprises the threefold objective of simultaneously increasing sustainability, security of supply and competitiveness. In…
The report analyses subsidies for savings on Bausparkassen accounts in a theoretical and empirical perspective. First the development of this specific instrument is described against the broader background of…
New information and communication technologies have been major drivers of efficiency not only in the ICT industries but also in the downstream industries. The liberalisation of the telecommunication sector was one…
The Ministry of Economics develops the draft of an energy-political concept of action for the period up until the year 2020. Prior to the debate in the Cabinet, one formulation of the energy- political concept of…
This project analysed the determinants of productivity of older employees on the basis of the IABS data set and the ICT survey of the ZEW. A special emphasis was put on the role of information and communication…
Applied (computable) general equilibrium models (CGE models) are an important tool used in the international research community in order to quantify the macroeconomic effects of politico-economic measures.…
The aim of the project was to carry out comparable surveys about firms’ innovation behaviour for a large number of OECD countries in and beyond Europe.The project focused on the following two questions: