It was the aim of this project to evaluate the current status of Cental and Eastern European capital markets (particularly in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) and to develop proposals for policy actions…
This project analyzes if and to what extent employee training efforts, the lack of qualified personnel, firm size and employees skill structure influence firms decision to outsource information technology…
There is an increasingly large overlap between digital and classical product markets. Nowadays, job offers can be called up online, used cars are traded over the internet, online auctions take place. The internet…
How do product demand and market shares react if product prices are changed? This traditional question of Industrial Organization has experienced a rebirth in recent years. Starting from the hedonic price…
This project investigates the impact of the knowledge economy on employment generation in Europe. It will first construct knowledge indicators for selected European countries, such as ICT (information and…
For a comprehensive study on behalf of the European Commission, a new methodology for computing effective tax burdens has been implemented and applied. This methodology, developed by Devereux and Griffith…
The spread of flexible working hours has increased sharply in recent years. Usually the decrease of overtime and subsequent reductions in costs are stated as a motivation for the implementation of flexible working…
Since the introduction of the Euro, Europe’s financial markets are often regarded as highly integrated. The study clarifies that this is not true, in particular with regard to retail financial services. The study…
Innovation is widely considered to be a primary source of economic growth and policies to stimulate firm-level innovation are high on the agenda in most countries. This research project is aimed at the exploration…