The paper investigates the reaction of public R&D spending on economic crises. We are interested in two counteracting motives: On the one hand, public R&D spending can be seen as a means to fight the crisis, …

Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate…

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual…

• Konjunkturerwartungen bleiben unverändert
• Eurozone: Inflationserwartungen nahezu unverändert
• USA: Moderates Wachstum
• Japan: Konjunkturlage verbessert sich leicht
• Großbritannien: Konjunkturerwartungen legen deutlich…

The KfW/ZEW CO2 Barometer – developed as part of a cooperation project of KfW Bankengruppe and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) – has been analysing the situation of the German companies regulated…

• International Financial Market Data — Assessments and Expectations
• Rise in long-term Interest Rates Expected
• Analysts Expect the US Dollar to Strengthen
• Rising Inflation Expectations
• Stock-Market Expectations still…

Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers…

Main Results of the Survey:

• While the Paris Agreement has the potential to be a major breakthrough in global climate negotiations, a majority of German companies participating in the EU ETS do not expect that it…