In the year 2006 ZEW had developed the Country Index for Family Enterprises on behalf of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. The objective of this index was an international comparison of investment locations…
The quality of the public administration is an important driver of EU competitiveness and influences firms' growth prospects through a number of channels. During their lifetime, firms interact with public…
The debate on the competences between the EU and its member states has risen in line with the most recent financial and debt crisis. While some supporter of the EU argue that its competences are still too small…
Public debt is at the core of the current economic crisis in Europe. This implies that lowering public debt is one of the key policy challenges. However, while there is no shortage of policy recommendations…
The two German federal states of Bavaria and Hesse recently filed a lawsuit in the German supreme court against the current German vertical equalization scheme, which regulates the financial relationship of the…
Pursuing the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commission addresses the malfunctioning of the Internal Market due to corporate tax obstacles. In this context, effective tax burdens reveal possible…
This project aims to enhance the understanding of the public finance related impacts of the German local-level direct democracy reforms of 1990s. The central focus is on Bavaria, where since the introduction of…
There is only little information on the total contribution of European foundations to Research and Innovation in Europe. The EUFORI-Study thus targets at quantifying this contribution, at comparing foundations…
The study is divided into three parts. Part 1 quantitatively investigates the adjustment paths of key economic variables in the European crisis countries with a particular focus on growth-relevant factors like…