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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This project aims to advance the understanding of market design in the presence of political constraints such as re-election motives as well as corruption and favoritism. We will study how corrupt market …
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…