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  Press Releases // 09.08.2022

  Higher Pre-Pandemic Digitalisation Level Led to Less Short-Time Work in the 2020 Crisis

  ty of digital capital,” says Dr. Sarra Ben Yahmed , one of the authors of the study and a researcher in ZEW’s “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” Department . “The fact that employees can work from home [...] capital is that it is essential for employees to work from home. This is the result of a recent study by ZEW Mannheim. Regions with little digital capital, on the other hand, were at a disadvantage: in areas [...] ing Virtual Private Network (VPN) and adequate ICT support,” explains Ben Yahmed. However, as the ZEW study shows, the availability of digital capital in pre-pandemic times combined with the possibility
• Projects // 01.06.2022

  Firm Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy – Indicator Study 2023

  report on the conditions of research, technology and innovation of the German Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (Expert Commission Research and Innovation (EFI)). The ZEW is involved in the development [...] dynamics. This project aims at capturing the start-up activities in the German knowledge economy (research and knowledge-intensive industries) and the development of the stock of enterprises, including the [...] companies.The information on company dynamics for Germany is extracted from the Mannheim Enterprise panel (MUP). Data on other European countries are taken from the
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  News // 08.08.2022

  Team Around ZEW Researcher Florian Baumann Awarded ALER Prize

  The American Law and Economics Review (ALER) has awarded ZEW economist Florian Baumann and his co-author Professor Tim Friehe from the University of Marburg the Best Theory Paper Prize 2022 for the article [...] options that influence the expected damage in the event of an accident in a particular activity. The researchers conclude that strict liability may impose less societal costs than negligence liability when the
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  Press Releases // 01.08.2022

  Working Time Performed from Home Increases Strongly in the Long Term – Especially in Large Firms

  expected shift to working from home is most pronounced in large firms,” says Dr. Daniel Erdsiek, researcher in ZEW’s “Digital Economy” Department. - Around 1,000 firms from the manufacturing industry and the [...] in the amount of working time performed from home in the long term. As a recent business survey by ZEW Mannheim shows, firms in the information economy expect an average of 24 per cent of their employees’
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  Press Releases // 05.08.2022

  Minimum Wage Had Only Little Impact on Competitive Conditions

  caused any companies to exit the market. The researchers also observed that it even made some sectors become more productive, promoting competition overall. - The ZEW study analysed the influence of the minimum [...] this ultimately affected the competitive conditions of companies,” says Moritz Lubczyk, a researcher in ZEW’s “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” Department and co-author of the study. One [...] euros gross per hour. In October, the minimum wage will be raised further to 12 euros. A study by ZEW Mannheim on behalf of the German Minimum Wage Commission now shows that the introduction of the minimum
• Events // 21.09.2022

  Fiscal Policy for Climate Change

  emissions and in their distributional impacts among households. The paper presented in this Research Seminar develops a macroeconomic heterogeneous-agent model with environmental externalities to address
• Events // 24.11.2022

  Big Data Analyses and New Developments in Research Data Centres (RDC)

  Developments in Research Data Centres” will take place at ZEW. The workshop is organised by IAB, ifo and ZEW as well as the associated research data centres: IAB-FDZ, EBDC (ifo) and ZEW-FDZ (including [...] media, measurement data and other big data – by converting it into structured research data Generation of research data by linking administrative and/or survey data, e.g. via machine learning
• Publications // 01.08.2022

  ZEWnews English edition - 07/08 - 2022

  href="https://www.zew.de/AM8260-1" target="_blank" title="To the article">COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Profound and Lasting Negative Effects on Education End of Net Asset Purchases to Be Welcomed
• Events // 28.09.2022

  A Quantitative Theory of the HIV Epidemic Education, Risky Sex, and Asymmetric Learning

  The paper presented in this Research Seminar develops a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of the author's approach is the insight that
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  Press Releases // 26.07.2022

  Joint EU Natural Gas Procurement May Counter Energy Price Spikes

  shielding EU businesses and citizens from rising energy prices,” says ZEW economist Leonardo Giuffrida, head of the ZEW Junior Research Group “Public Procurement” and co-author of the policy brief. EU-wide [...] problem. EU-wide procurement would be an efficient means of preventing energy price spikes, as a recent ZEW policy brief shows. - The natural gas supply situation in Europe continues to worsen as costs are rising [...] procurement of COVID-19 vaccines has been challenging for many reasons. These include the underlying research and development process, the pressure for rapid development, the high upfront costs for manufacturers