The key industries in Germany are planning to increase their investment in innovation in 2017 even more than in 2015. This is the case for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, the mechanical engineering…
Dr. Mario Liebensteiner was a visiting researcher at ZEW’s Research Group "Competition and Regulation" from 23 to 25 January 2017. He is a postdoc at the Institute for Quantitative Economics of the Vienna…
As part of its green energy revolution, Germany is planning a mammoth project: Südlink, an 800-kilometre-long power transmission corridor connecting the wind-rich North with consumers in the South. But while…
Economic truths can be cruel. In 1993, the University of Minnesota’s Joel Waldfogel published a famous article about the deadweight loss that occurs at Christmas. According to his analysis, billions are lost…
