Projects

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.04.2019 – 31.03.2021

    The Impacts of Environmental Regulation on Innovation and Firm Performance in Europe

    Since the implementation of environmental regulations in the 1970s, there has been much debate about their potential effects on affected firms. Policymakers and firm representatives fear that incomplete regulation…

  2. Project // 01.04.2019 – 31.03.2021

    The Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    Politicians often use the assumption of positive employment effects of low-carbon technologies to support them. However there is little scientific evidence for this. We aim at empirically characterizing the local…

  3. Project // 01.04.2019 – 31.01.2022

    Information Diffusion on Twitter: The Effect of Hate Speech Regulation

    Nowadays, social media became one of the most important channels for information consumption by individuals. Due to the power of the digital “word-of-mouth”, businesses increasingly use social networks for the…

  4. Project // 01.03.2019 – 31.12.2022

    Market design for food donations

    The aim of the project is a simple and efficient distribution of food donations. This is made possible by the development of an online platform as an interface between food banks and companies from the industry…

  5. Project // 01.03.2019 – 31.01.2020

    Financing of Start-ups by Private Investors, Evaluations and Analyses on the Basis of the IAB/ZEW Start-up panel 2019

    For a long period, the financing conditions for young innovative companies have been a research area of the ZEW research department “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” in various studies. These…

  6. Project // 01.03.2019 – 31.12.2020

    Corruption, Sea Level Rise and the Social Cost of Carbon

    With this proposal we put forward two separate paper ideas. In the first paper connecting SLR to corruption, we build upon the models of Nováĉková and Tol (2018), Escaleras et al. (2007), Escaleras and Register…

  7. Project // 01.02.2019 – 31.01.2020

    Innovation Survey 2019 for Berlin

    The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Berlin in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019 and…

  8. Project // 01.02.2019 – 31.01.2020

    2019 Data-Report on Innovation Behaviour of Saxony‘s Economy

    The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Saxony in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019 and…

  9. Project // 01.02.2019 – 31.01.2020

    Innovation Survey 2019 for Brandenburg

    The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Brandenburg in the years 2016 to 2018 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2019…

  10. Project // 01.01.2019 – 30.06.2022

    Design and Impact of Admissions Rules for Schools

    Admissions rules play an important role in many aspects of life. Among others, they regulate the allocation of students to schools. Today digitalisation enables decision makers to use computer-based matching…

  11. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021

    The Design of Firms Internal Labour Markets Under Asymmetric Information

    Designing internal labour markets and reducing frictions in employee retention is an important challenge for human resource management (HRM). The aim of the project was twofold. The first part investigated…

  12. Project // 01.01. – 31.10.2019

    Innovation Indicators for the Chemical Industry 2019

    The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2019. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…