Projects

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01. – 28.02.2019

    The film industry in Baden-Württemberg

    As part of the project, the most important economic indicators of the film industry in Baden-Württemberg were compiled in a brief expert report for the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in…

  2. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020

    The Case Law of the European Court of Justice in the Area of Direct Taxation – an Interdisciplinary Analysis

    To date, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided around 400 cases in the field of direct taxation and has thus considerably shaped the applicable tax law in the EU Member States: Apart from necessary…

  3. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2021

    The Design of Firms Internal Labour Markets Under Asymmetric Information

    Designing internal labour markets and reducing frictions in employee retention is an important challenge for human resource management (HRM). The aim of the project was twofold. The first part investigated…

  4. Project // 01.01.2019 – 30.06.2022

    Design and Impact of Admissions Rules for Schools

    Admissions rules play an important role in many aspects of life. Among others, they regulate the allocation of students to schools. Today digitalisation enables decision makers to use computer-based matching…

  5. Project // 01.01. – 31.10.2019

    Innovation Indicators for the Chemical Industry 2019

    The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2019. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…

  6. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Buy Local – A Market for Balancing Energy in Electricity Distribution Networks

    The project aims on laying the foundations for to design a market for balancing energy in electricity distribution networks. Such markets currently do not exist, albeit more and more retail customers like small…

  7. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Redesign Redispatch

    The project aims on analyzing, testing, and potentially redesigning the mechanism for the procurement of power plant redispatch in the German transmission grid for electric power.

  8. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020

    The Role of Real Estate for old-age Income

    The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…

  9. Project // 01.12.2018 – 30.11.2021

    Climate Protection Potential of Digital Transformation (CliDiTrans): Micro- and Macroeconomic Evidence on the Role of Demand Effects and Production Relocation

    Digitalisation of the economy and society is a significant driver of changes in lifestyles and the work environment. The increasingly decentralized availability and rapidly developing capacity of information and…

  10. Project // 01.12.2018 – 31.08.2022

    Evaluating Germany’s Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Practice

    Building on the Socio-Ecologic Panel (SÖP) established in the BMBF-funded project Eval-MAP (www.rwi-essen.de/eval-map), the objectives of the proposed project Eval-MAP II are twofold. First, we will undertake…

  11. Project // 01.12.2018 – 03.06.2020

    Effects of the National Minimum Wage on Self-Employment

    The aim of this project was to investigate whether the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 causally effected self-employment. The project was conducted using data on self-employment from…

  12. Project // 01.12.2018 – 30.11.2022

    Incentives, Fairness and Compliance in International Environmental Agreements

    During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…