Innovations stand for technological progress and are important for firms in order to remain competitive. But innovation activities are associated with high costs and uncertainties. Since in particular micro and…
Energy Forecast 2009 wants to establish a cosistent set of scenarios regarding a realistic long-term evolvement of supply and demand of energy resources in Germany. Interaction on the energy markets will be taken…
To date there is no data set in Germany, which observes firm formations not only on an annual basis but also continuously over a number of years. Thus the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), the KfW…
The European Union’s commitment to moving to a low carbon economy, including a reduction of greenhouse gases of at least 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, raises potential competitiveness concerns in…
The aim of the project is a comprehensive analysis of the price formation process of exchange-traded European emission allowances (EUAs). The primary goal is to determine the influence of publicly and privately…
The German labour market is characterised by high employment stability and low dynamics due to a high degree of regulation. There are, however, important segments with low employment stability and short…
The projects aims to analyse the contributions of intangible investments to innovation, competitiveness, growth and productivity in Europe. The understanding of the effects of intangibles assets are vital for some…
The project aims to provide a better understanding of the impact of venture capital and private equity financing on the economic performance of innovative entrepreneurial ventures in Europe, as …
ObjectivesCharacteristics, determinants, barriers and impacts of sustainable medium and long-term decisions on energy consumption in residential buildings were examined in an empirically supported, inter- and…
In recent years, the importance of business sector start-ups for a country’s economic prosperity has been emphasised in economic and political discourse. It is argued that the foundation of firms has a…
This project aims to develop a methodology which allows ex-ante evaluating the effects of the parental benefit (‘Elterngeld’), introduced in January 2007 in Germany, at both the micro and macro levels. We…
The aim of this project is to analyse reforms of the German income tax system, using an optimal taxation approach. Furthermore, we account for possible interaction effects due to the non-competitiveness of the…