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  Press Releases // 22.11.2024

  Big Data and Productivity: No Automatic Relationship

  that big data will boost labour productivity have not been fully realised so far. A study by ZEW Mannheim shows: The effect of big data on labour productivity depends primarily on the extent of data analysis [...] analysis. The researchers examined official company data from statistics authorities in Germany and the Netherlands for the study. - “The availability of data and computing capacity has increased at a high [...] high pace in recent years, enabling companies to perform big data analytics,” explains the study’s co-author Robin Sack, member of ZEW’s “Digital Economy” Research Unit.
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  News // 21.10.2024

  How Do Think Tanks Work?

  agencies for a year, all while continuing to pay their salaries. This allows them to access relevant data and connect with key people. What’s interesting is that when a new administration takes office, hundreds [...] and a half to come up with research results could have helped in that situation. They need reliable data in six weeks, for example on the energy consumption of companies and households. In Germany, a commission [...] second largest recipient of German direct investment. Interesting, isn’t it? But it’s actually a statistical artefact, because so many banks are based in Luxembourg. My next stops, however, will be Rome and
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  Press Releases // 02.10.2024

  The Chemical Industry Is an Important Driver of Innovation for the German Economy

  Research (ISI) for the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI). The data is based on information from the global patent statistics database PATSTAT. - “Our study shows that the German chemical industry
• Publications // 31.07.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Big Data and Firm-Level Productivity – A Cross-Country Comparison

  tive firm-level data provided by the Dutch and the German statistical offices, we investigate the economic importance of data, in particular, the effect of the application of big data analytics (BDA) on [...] capture the effect of BDA on LP. In contrast, measures of BDA intensity clearly show a positive and statistically significant relationship between BDA and LP, even after controlling for a firm’s general
• Publications // 08.07.2024

  Refereed Journal - What drives Carbon Emissions in German Manufacturing: Scale, Technique or Composition?

  emission intensities of production increased. We show that data aggregation matters. Both effects are substantially underestimated when using data at the sector level as compared to the product level. A [...] decades. For carbon emissions such reductions have yet to materialize. Using German administrative micro-data at the product level, we apply the workhorse model for decomposing emission changes into scale, c
• Projects // 01.10.2023

  TafelConnect – Platform for distributing large donations to food banks and other food-saving organizations

  of rejected food donations reduced. The project also aims to improve and automate data collection and donation statistics.   Various stakeholders play a central role in TafelConnect. These
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  Press Releases // 08.04.2024

  European Liabilities Absent from German Debt Statistics

  are larger than indicated in the official statistics on public debt. The reason for this is the EU’s debt burden, which does not appear in the national data. This European debt has led to hidden liabilities [...] particular has brought about a financial burden for Germany which is not included in the German debt statistics. These are the findings of a study conducted by ZEW Mannheim with the support of the Strube Stiftung
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  Press Releases // 06.05.2024

  Public Tenders Make Firms Less Innovative

  from ZEW Mannheim and KU Leuven based on data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP), the Tender Electronic Daily (TED) and the EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT). - “Public tenders play
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  News // 20.02.2024

  Evaluation of Research and Innovation Funding

  funding data with the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) Connecting the dataset with survey data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) and the survey on R&D in German firms by the Science Statistics of the
• Events // 21.12.2023

  In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures

  schooling on youth suicide. The authors document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, they document the historical association between teen suicides [...] variation in school reopenings in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021—proxied by anonymized SafeGraph smartphone data on elementary and secondary school foot traffic — they find that returning from online to in-person