Witnessing stock-market history in the making creates a vivid story, but does not provide valuable information for forming return expectations. However, using a unique dataset about the timing of professionals'…
In this project, we examined to what extend firms in different inustries in Germany rely on crowdworking over time. Crowdworking describes the allocation of usually internal business tasks and projects via online…
The social market economy in Germany has long been associated with ensuring prosperity and social inclusion. Given growing income and wealth inequality, the question of sustainability of this economic role model…
Das deutsche Steuer- und Transfersystem wird immer wieder als wachstums- und anreizfeindlich kritisiert. Internationale Organisationen wie die OECD bemängeln regelmäßig die hohe Belastung kleiner und insbesondere…
The goal of the project is to collect and to structure economic data for the cluster ICT, media, cultural economy for the purpose of statistical analyses. The cluster ICT, media, cultural economy includes…
The majority of companies in Germany are family companies. They are not only represented in the SME sector, but a significant portion also among the large companies with more than 50 million Euro in annual sales.…
In contrast to the German tax law there are no child allowances in the social insurance. In this project we analyze their introduction, limited to the statutory pension insurance, using the ZEW tax-transfer…
This research project analyses ways and implications of increasing the R&D to GDP ratio in Germany to 3.5% by 2025. Using microeconomic, sector-level and macroeconomic approaches, the research focuses on
BREATHE will analyse the interactions between urban form, economic welfare, energy use and emissions by households and firms. Increasing urban density and increasing city size tend to reduce households’ average…
Pursuing the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commission addresses the malfunctioning of the Internal Market due to corporate tax obstacles. In this context, effective tax burdens reveal possible…