Projects

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2020 – 31.10.2021

    Foundation of the Mannheim Institute for Financial Education

    Financial Literacy plays a central role for individual financial well-being and inclusion. It can also play an important role for the stability of financial markets and the effectiveness of central bank…

  2. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2020

    Pension Dashboard for more transparency in old-age provision

    In the coalition agreement of 2018, the federal government set the goal to provide a pension information covering all three pillars of retirement income. This means that the public pension entitlements as well…

  3. Project // 01.12.2019 – 31.01.2025

    Integration of Migrants and Attitudes towards the Welfare State

    Against the background of the strong immigration to Germany in recent years, the role of the welfare state and its legitimacy are discussed controversially. On the one hand, social policy supports the integration…

  4. Project // 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2022

    Kopernikus Project "Industrial Processes": Synchronized and Energy-Adaptive Production Technology for Flexible Alignment of Industrial Processes to a Fluctuating Energy Supply (SynErgie)

    The Kopernikus project SynErgie addresses the challenge of harmonizing the generation with the consumption of electricity in a future with a high proportion of wind and solar power. The focus is on the design…

  5. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.10.2020

    MannheimTaxation – Payroll Taxes, Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurial Activity

    The objective of this research project – which is financed by the Leibniz-ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation – is to study the causal effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on the probability to become…

  6. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.12.2023

    The Originality of Entrepreneurs Along the Life Cycle of Firms: Understanding the Attributes of Entrepreneurial Decision Making

    It is widely accepted that new ventures – particularly in the high-technology industry – spur growth of national economies. In these firms, founders are perceived to be eminently influential…

  7. Project // 01.06.2019 – 30.11.2023

    Improving School Admissions for Diversity and Better Learning Outcomes

    The policy question analyzed in this project is how the incentives of public decision-makers may impede the implementation of admissions rules that are both fair and efficient, reduce social segregation and…

  8. Project // 01.06.2019 – 31.12.2024

    Measurement of the Digitalisation of the German Economy

    The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an…

  9. Project // 01.05.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Coming to terms with ambiguous asset dimensions: quality, beauty and uniqueness in the built environment

    In this project we will first train a computer vision model from ground up. The resulting machine learning model will be the first to be fully optimised for the built environment, offering an alternative…

  10. Project // 01.03.2019 – 31.12.2022

    Market design for food donations

    The aim of the project is a simple and efficient distribution of food donations. This is made possible by the development of an online platform as an interface between food banks and companies from the industry…

  11. Project // 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2021

    Evonik-Specific Early Warning System: Monthly Updates (2017-2021)

    The objective of the project is to identify and construct forward-looking indicators in order to assess the developments in the markets of selected sectors and regularly deliver them to Evonik Industries AG…

  12. Project // 01.04.2015 – 31.07.2024

    Creation of a Representative Data Base of Young Firms in Baden-Wuerttemberg

    The sample for the IAB/ZEW Start-up Panel will be extended so that the start-ups in Baden-Württemberg can be displayed more representatively. The L-Bank Baden-Württemberg is interested in having a micro database…