In recent years, there has been a revival of concerns that automation and digitization might result in a jobless future. The debate has been fueled by studies for the US and Europe arguing that a substantial share…
The proposed research project aims at investigating market integration in European electricity markets with a focus on Switzerland. We identify current market integration empirically based on econometric models.…
The brief report updates the ZEW Microsimulation Model used in the overall evaluation of marriage- and family-related benefits and measures with regard to data and legal status. Furthermore distributional effects…
ZEW researchers provided research support to the independent advisory board of the German stability council. They assist the council organizationally and contentwise with the preparation of its biannual…
The aim of the project is to show and evaluate policy options for a regulatory framework for the digital economy. The project will deal with the digital economy in the strict sense, i.e. the provision of digital…
The digitalisation of production and business processes has been continuously accelerating over the years. Moreover, digital technologies increasingly foster the creation of new business models. It is widely…
The strong alignment of long-term bond yields of euro countries, which actually have different degrees of credit-worthiness, is evidence for the fact that meanwhile investors assume at least a partial factual…
There is a controversial public debate on the consequences of an increasingly digitalized world of work on the society and economy. In particular, fears are raised that jobs might be increasingly at risk due to…
Using panel data on the population of corporate tax-returns of Armenian firms, this project studies the behavioral response of firms to three size-dependent regulations: i) a tax-notch created by the value …
On behalf of the European Commission, ZEW computes measures of corporate effective taxation in Europe based on the Devereux-Griffith (DG) methodology on a yearly basis. For the computation of the effective tax…
The purpose of this project is to reveal the essential challenges of the innovation hub Germany and to advance proposals for an improvement of the innovation performance of the German economy. Focal points are the…
In January 2013, the German Interurban Bus Industry was liberalized and therefore opened for competition. Against this background, the projects aim at constructing a panel data set that can subsequently be used to…