This project develops and employs forecasting models for the chemical industry in Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain,…
It is the aim of this project to evaluate the impact of the subsidies for vocational training on the market for vocational training. It is the aim of the study to investigate if the subsidy facilitates the…
The goal of the project is to analyse firm-specific employment adjustments on macro and micro shocks. This will be done with a new German linked employer-employee data set. The data is composed of the IFO…
In the context of this EU Twinning Project, ZEW experts support the Latvian Competition Council in the extension of the use of theoretical and empirical methods of competition policy analysis. In particular, ZEW…
Business founding activity in high-tech sectors: High-tech foundations in Germany are observed with respect to their numbers, their share of the total number of foundations and…
The monopoly rights represented by patents have classically been viewed as a short-run sacrifice of consumer surplus for the sake of long-run increases in economic growth through the promotion of investment in…
The European residential mortgage markets are characterised by a high degree of heterogeneity and cannot be called an integrated market. Within the project, the characteristics of the different national…
Policy makers and societies at large are facing increasingly pressing trade-offs between socio-economic and environmental developments. Increases in production induce growth in the use of non-renewable resources…
This ZEW report on behalf of the BMBF summarizes recent research and research units on the economics of science (research and teaching at university) in Germany, and in an international comparative perspective…
ICT have been regarded in the literature as general purpose technologies (GPT). These technologies are drastic innovations characterized by their pervasive use in a wide range of economic sectors, as well as by…
Although Europe has seen major growth in defined contribution (DC) plans, there has not been a uniform development across countries. The importance, form, regulation and product requirements of DC differ…
Due to substantial international interdependence, economic activity for specific countries cannot be analyzed without a close look on the development of the world economy. However, indicators that reflect …