This project develops and employs forecasting models for the chemical industry and important purchasing industries, namely automobile, construction, electrical equipment and pulp and papers. The models cover…
The aim of this research is to determine the extent and scope of innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the city of Berlin. Based on a special sample for Berlin-based enterprises as part of the…
The project evaluates the impact of family policy and other determinants on the fertility rate. Based on an extensive review of the relevant literature in several disciplines, a behavioural microsimulation model…
Conventional tax systems favor equity financing and discriminate against debt financing. While firms are allowed to deduct interest expenses from their tax base, the return on equity is not tax deductible, which…
The efficiency of the public sector is a requisite for economic competitiveness. The quality of the public administration and of governance impacts the environment in which businesses operate and largely …
Since many years the analysis of labour market policies in Germany is of high interest for researchers and politicians alike. Results are, however, in several cases contradictory or ignore important aspects. This…
The project deals with the estimation of day-to-day variation in aggregate expectations using information about the day on which individual (survey) expectations are formed. This kind of data is sometimes…
The aim of this project is to develop and provide an academic foundation for a so-called disagreement indicator based on micro data from the ZEW Financial Market Survey. A disagreement indicator depicts the …
The Austrian Report on Research and Technology summarises state and development of research and technology in Austria and presents government activities to promote scientific research and innovation in Austria. As…
The purpose of this project is to prepare a feasibility study on a monitoring mechanism (an Observatory) to follow-up, measure and appraise the deployment of Key Enabling Technologies in the EU. Moreover, the…
The means test in the German system of social and unemployment assistance (“Arbeitslosengeld II”) was recently reformed; currently, several propositions for further changes in the means test are being discussed.…
The project investigated the relationship between education and social progress in Germany in cooperation with the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim and the OECD, Paris. Data from the Mannheim Study of…