Today, the Centre for European Economic Research, Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI), Forschungszentrum Familienbewusste Personalpolitik (Munster) as well as the universities of Cologne and…
The Basel II Accord implemented a tighter regulation of the banking sector. The importance of external credit scoring conducted by rating agencies has thus grown significantly for banks providing business…
The short expert report by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) analyses the labour market situation of older…
Of all European countries as well as the United States, Switzerland offers the best conditions for family enterprises. Germany, in contrast, ranks only 11th among 18 countries and so takes a position in the…
WWWforEurope (Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe) started in April 2012 as a four-year research project within the 7th Framework Programme funded by the European Commission. The project aims at contributing to…
In the urban centres Munich, Berlin, the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, Hamburg, and Cologne/Düsseldorf, the number of newly founded ICT companies is especially high. The start-up intensity, i.e. the number of…
Demographic change, climate change, and the current state of public finances inevitably call for further reforms in Germany. But is there acceptance for such reforms at the moment? In a study on behalf of…
