As part of the project, the most important economic indicators of the film industry in Baden-Württemberg were compiled in a brief expert report for the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in…
Well before the Great Recession, the strikingly successful socio-economic regime of growth of the three decades after WWII came to an end as the smooth matching among technological innovation, productivity growth,…
This project continues ZEW’s line of research on EU fiscal institutions. The focus is on documenting potential political biases in existing and newly created European instruments and then studying their…
Recent trends in productivity growth and differences in productivity levels between countries have been increasingly associated with widespread differences between firms within sectors, both in technology use and…
The value of data has become a central topic of the public debate. On the one hand, new, data-based technologies have an enormous innovation potential due to improved information flows and decision quality. On the…
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…
To date, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided around 400 cases in the field of direct taxation and has thus considerably shaped the applicable tax law in the EU Member States: Apart from necessary…
The project aims on laying the foundations for to design a market for balancing energy in electricity distribution networks. Such markets currently do not exist, albeit more and more retail customers like small…
The project aims on analyzing, testing, and potentially redesigning the mechanism for the procurement of power plant redispatch in the German transmission grid for electric power.
The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…
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…
Digitalisation of the economy and society is a significant driver of changes in lifestyles and the work environment. The increasingly decentralized availability and rapidly developing capacity of information and…