Projects

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.12.2021 – 30.09.2026

    BERD@NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data

    The mission of BERD@NFDI is to develop a future-oriented and powerful research data infrastructure for the integrated management of unstructured data and scientific software for its subject community. With this…

  2. Project // 01.11.2021 – 31.10.2023

    Geo-coded Innovation Data for a Small-scale Spatial Analysis of the Innovation Performance of Regions

    The aim of the research project is to develop a methodology for producing innovation indicators that can be used for small-scale regional analyses (below the district level) and that enable a flexible definition…

  3. Project // 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2023

    Improving energy efficiency in low-income households: Empirical evidence and field experiments

    Low-income households face multiple challenges in the transformation towards a zero-carbon economy in Germany. This social group is both proportionally more burdened by price-based instruments and exhibits a lower…

  4. Project // 01.07.2021 – 30.06.2024

    The Effect of Innovation Policy on China’s Competitiveness and the Reaction of Firms in Germany

    In three work packages, we examine the effectiveness of China’s innovation policy in supporting innovation and competitiveness as well as the adaptation of firms…

  5. Project // 01.06.2021 – 31.03.2024

    Taming Tech Giants’ Algorithms: The Amazon Buy-Box Case

    Overview
    Many digital platforms operate as two-sided markets, facilitating the matching between sellers and buyers. Due to ICT developments, online marketplaces such as Amazon are increasingly relevant in our…

  6. Project // 01.05.2021 – 30.04.2024

    Incentives and Economics of Data Sharing (IEDS)

    In today's digitalized economy, data is considered a central resource and offers enormous innovation potential for operational value creation. Nevertheless, data is still insufficiently used and…

  7. Project // 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024

    Dynamic Text Data Based Output Indicators as Base of a New Innovation Metric

    Building on the results of the joint project TOBI (Text Data Based Output Indicators as the Basis of a New Innovation Metric), various methodological and content-related further developments will be tackled in…

  8. Project // 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024

    Regional Economic Disparities in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Role of Digitalization and Working-from-Home

    The project analyses how the COVID-19 crisis affects labour market disparities within and between German regions. We aim to quantify the short and medium-term employment effects and the contribution of firm…

  9. Project // 01.04.2021 – 30.04.2024

    Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas: Incidence, Determinants and Regional Economic Effects

    The Project aims at identifying typical patterns and mechanisms of entrepreneurship in rural areas. In this context the entrepreneurial activities in rural areas are described using data from: the Startupdetector…

  10. Project // 01.04.2021 – 30.09.2022

    Hate-Crime, Refugees, and local Tax Revenues

    In this project, we aim to examine the economic consequences of anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. Political motivated crime reduce a…

  11. Project // 15.02.2021 – 14.02.2024

    Labor Market Consequences of Covid-19 and the Digital Transformation

    The impact of the Corona pandemic on businesses and employees presumably depends, among other things, on how digitized businesses already were before the pandemic. If digitization proves to be an instrument for…

  12. Project // 01.02. – 30.09.2021

    The Role of Occupational Pension Schemes for Income in Old Age – Current Evidence and Databases

    Despite the socio-political importance that occupational pension schemes have had since 2001, the incomplete evidence, lack of transparency, and lack of databases have been criticized regularly during the last…