Since the introduction of the Euro, Europe’s financial markets are often regarded as highly integrated. The study clarifies that this is not true, in particular with regard to retail financial services. The study…
Seemingly parallel to the increase in the evaluation of labour market policies runs the politically motivated desire for evaluation of policies in the environmental field. While, however, a host of studies works…
Through June 25./26. 2001, the ZEW held an international workshop titled „Empirical Modeling of the Economy and the Environment“, celebrating 10 years since the ZEW's foundation and, at the same time, the 60.…
Entscheidungen für eine bestimmte Form der privaten Altersvorsorge sind notwendigerweise mit einem hohen Grad an Unsicherheit behaftet. Besondere Schwierigkeiten bereitet der lange Zeithorizont des…
Due to constantly rising social security budgets and negative incentives of social benefits on labour supply and growth, European social systems are put increasingly under pressure. In this situation, for social…
The number of patent applications is an important indicator for the inventive activities of a country. R&D is considered to be the most important influence factor for inventions. In the nineties the number of…
The relationship between individual qualification and labour market success is analysed for women and men in France and Germany. Because on the one hand the educational systems and on the other hand the general…
The aim of the summer school was to foster a research network amongst Western and Eastern European economist working on transition economics and capital markets. In the core workshop of 3 days J. Hanousek (CERGE,…
In the literature, there is a controverse discussion on the productivity effects of information- and communication technologies (ICT). Some recent studies hint at the relationship between ICT and workplace…
It was the aim of the project to develop forecasting and simulation models for interest rates in the Euro area. The target interest rates are those with 6 months, 2, 5 and 10 years time to maturity. The…
Different methods of adjusting for quality changes are a possible cause of international statistics not being comparable. Therefore the market for personal computers (PC) was chosen in order to establish, whether…