The purpose of the project is to analyse how firms’ extrovertedness affects their success. By extrovertedness we mean firms’ active use of social media and their passive presence in social media (media exposure).…
Against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone, the project has two objectives. First, the impact on the potential volume of work and thus on the potential output in the European crisis countries…
Reserve power markets face the challenge of balancing short-term fluctuations in the transportation grid to stabilize the power system’s frequency. The current reserve power market was designed at a time when…
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…
This project aims at analysing the complementarity of investment in patents and trademarks for firm performance by employing an extensive data set of European firms. Patents and trademarks are both intellectual…
The project aims to strengthen competencies of the Personnel Economics research area in analyzing multi-dimensional linked employer-employee data. It builds on two novel longitudinal matched employer-employee…
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…
The Centre for European Economic research (ZEW), in co-operation with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), conducts a quarterly survey on Chinese economic development and economic ties between Germany and China. The …
The research project "Sociopolitical Impact of the German Energy Transition" examines the links between energy and social policy with help of empirical analyses and contributions of philosophy, economic ethics,…
The European Union has set ambitious targets for 2020 to reduce emissions to 20% below 1990 level and raise the share of renewable energy in its energy mix up to 20%. These are further strengthened by the…
Starting from the first evaluation of sector-specific minimum wages that had been initiated by the Federal Ministry of Labour in 2010, the aim of the project is to examine alternative methods for the evaluation of…
The EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) is a joint macro-regional strategy of the countries of the Danube Region and the European Commission. The EUSDR area includes the German Federal States…