With the agreement on setting up a transparency mechanism (TM), the 2015 Paris Accord took an important step towards strengthening compliance in international climate policy through monitoring,…
The objective of this research project – which is financed by the Leibniz- ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation – is to study the causal effect of the type of health insurance (private vs public) on different health…
PIVO – Private Precautionary MeasuresPrivate precautionary measures constitute a significant part of different strategies aimed at reducing risks resulting from climate change. They complement technical-planning…
Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) hat als Teil des Rah-menvertrags „Ökonomische Bewertung verschiedener Reformoptionen im deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystem“ das Zentrum für Europäische…
CEP services (Courier, express and parcel services) are currently showing a strong growth trend. In Germany, for example, more than 2.9 billion CEP shipments were sent in 2015. This figure is expected to increase…
Fiscal rules have gained importance in recent decades given ever increasing deficits and public debt around the world. In this project, we add to a small literature which recently evaluated the budgetary and…
In the years 2015 and 2016 more than one million asylum seekers arrived in Germany affecting the labour market in different ways: On the one hand these asylum seekers had to be accommodated and taken care of,…
The aim of the research project is to identify the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives using the evidence gathered by econometric evaluation studies of R&D tax incentives in the past 20 years. The main…
The majority of enterprises in Germany are family-owned. There are not only represented in the mid-sized sector but also make up a significant part of large-scale enterprises with an annual revenue of 50 million…
Diese Expertise untersucht im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend zwei Varianten für eine Reform des Kinderzuschlags, die auf eine Stärkung der Arbeitsanreize zielen. …
The current debate about the economic and political development of the European Union devotes considerable attention to fostering economic resilience and achieving economic convergence of the member states. In the…