The purpose of the project is to provide a basic data set for the evaluation of the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) and to provide support services for using this data set in the context of the…
The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Saxony in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and…
This project assesses the impact of social insurance on informal Long-Term-Care (LTC) provision by family members in Germany. Family members are the most important providers of informal outpatient LTC. While…
The federal government wants to change the employment allowances for recipients of basic social security benefits in such a way as to strengthen labor supply incentives and avoid the sometimes very high effective…
The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Brandenburg in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and…
Fiscal policy in Germany and the EU has responded to the succession of crises over the past few years with a whole arsenal of new fiscal instruments. At the European level, the debt-financed Next Generation EU…
In this project, I focus on the potential impairment of the bank lending channel of monetary policy easing for weakly capitalized banks. I show this in two steps. First, I show through a theoretical model how…
Communication between doctors and patients is the key factor for good healthcare, especially in the primary care sector. In order to understand a comprehensive medical history, to accurately make diagnoses and…
The purpose of the project is (a) to develop a measurement roadmap for green innovation, and (b) to draft a short report on green innovation indicators. The measurement roadmap will focus on the business…
Social media have lately become one of the primary information channels for many individuals, which was exacerbated during the recent pandemic. As such, social media is a major example of the ambivalence of…
The study aims at developing a master plan for the "Mittelstand" (i.e., the group of small, medium-sized or family-owned businesses) in Baden-Wuerttemberg that can guide economic policy in supporting this group of…