Since many years the analysis of labor market policies in Germany is of high interest for researchers and politicians alike. Results are, however, in several cases contradictory or ignore important aspects. This…
This project focuses on typical transaction costs which are faced by investors when they shift the components of their mutual fund portfolios. In consideration of the flat-rate savings tax (Abgeltungsteuer), …
The central part of the project was the empirical analysis of the supply structure of the market for renewable energy in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and of the relevant structure of intermediate…
Detailed analyses concerning the form, structure and dynamics of employment in new high-tech ventures have been rare because of lacking data. In order to fill this gap data of the ZEW High-tech Start-up Panel 2007…
Though mainstream economic measures such as GDP are useful measures with great influence on both public and private decisions, they are flawed as measures of human welfare. In addition, they give little…
Based on the expertise "Kinderkomponente für Geringverdienerhaushalte", see Schnabel et al. (2007), the fiscal and distributional effects of other reforms of the children's allowance are calculated. Besides…
Compared to road and air transportation, rail transportation is the more environmentally friendly means of travel. In intermodal competition, however, regulations on the tax burden imposed on means of…
The "House of Education for children from 3 to 10" is an educational intervention in the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in which 33 primary schools and 48 kindergartens participate. One school and one or more…
In the search for economic instruments to mitigate global climate change, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has recently been embraced by proponents in both developing and developed…
In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees.…
The goal of this project is to analyse human resource developments and their determinants using administrative, internal personnel data of two firms, one active in the service and the other active in the…
National tax policy and the tax revenues it triggers cannot be analysed without reference to the international context. The main reason for this is a mobile tax base. The production factors capital and…