The project described current research themes in the economics of climate change and outlines user needs in industry, finance, policy and science. It assessed the economic reseach on climate change issues and…
Since its onset, the global financial crisis has had a significant impact on the M&A market. The conditions under which M&A transactions are implemented have changed considerably, from both an institutional and…
Retail price recommendations (RPR) refer to non-binding suggestions from a manufacturer on how a retailer should price the manufacturer’s goods to final consumers. This is a widely used practice that is typically…
Within the scope of the project the recipients of the Federal Direct R&D Project Funding (DPF) are classified with regard to their belonging to the group of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and the DPF is…
What are the relevant location factors in the fund industry? This question is the main aspect of the project. First, we will differentiate the value added chain of a fund by function and location. Therefore,…
In line with the persistence of the gender wage gap and the high political relevance of the topic, the empirical literature on this subject is substantial. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of…
The ZEW is one of the pioneers of microsimulation in Germany; its model STSM has been in active use since the late 1990s. The aim of the present project is to rewrite the model's program code, taking into…
One goal of German politics is to increase public expenditures for education and research up to a share of 10% of German GDP. From the perspective of rational fiscal policy, public expenditures for…
This project develops and employs forecasting models for the chemical industry in Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain,…
It is the aim of this project to evaluate the impact of the subsidies for vocational training on the market for vocational training. It is the aim of the study to investigate if the subsidy facilitates the…
The goal of the project is to analyse firm-specific employment adjustments on macro and micro shocks. This will be done with a new German linked employer-employee data set. The data is composed of the IFO…
In the context of this EU Twinning Project, ZEW experts support the Latvian Competition Council in the extension of the use of theoretical and empirical methods of competition policy analysis. In particular, ZEW…