Compared to road and air transportation, rail transportation is the more environmentally friendly means of travel. In intermodal competition, however, regulations on the tax burden imposed on means of…
In the search for economic instruments to mitigate global climate change, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has recently been embraced by proponents in both developing and developed…
In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees.…
The "House of Education for children from 3 to 10" is an educational intervention in the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in which 33 primary schools and 48 kindergartens participate. One school and one or more…
The goal of this project is to analyse human resource developments and their determinants using administrative, internal personnel data of two firms, one active in the service and the other active in the…
National tax policy and the tax revenues it triggers cannot be analysed without reference to the international context. The main reason for this is a mobile tax base. The production factors capital and…
Our research group, Growth and Business Cycles, aims specifically to analyse and forecast short and long term macroeconomic variables. This particular emphasis makes the standard instruments of econometric…
In this project we support the development of specific questions which will be included in the questionnaire of the "National Education Panel Study" (NEPS). The focus of these questions is on topics which are key…
The project studied the robustness of research results on productivity effects of ICT. Particular emphasis was put on the decomposition of growth into the effects of investment and productivity growth and on the…
In connection with a program to expand publicly provided daycare for small children in Germany, the government has suggested to introduce a new benefit for mothers of children younger than 3 years who decide to…
In 2000 the European Council agreed upon the Lisbon Agenda which has put forward as its main objective to make the EU "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable…
Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are the main pillar of the innovation activity in Germany. Around 95% of all innovating companies in the manufacturing industry have less than 500 employees. In the…