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…
The main task of this project is to analyze ways of retailisation of investment funds not regulated by the UCITS derivative. The study concentrates on two European markets: Poland and Germany.
The ERAWATCH research inventory service contains a comprehensive and coherent set of information on the policy context, the structure and evolution of the RTD systems in all the EU member States and the States…
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…
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 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 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 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 …
Young women disproportionately migrate from eastern to western Germany, leaving behind a historically unique imbalance in the gender ratio in many East German regions. In some East German counties, 100 men…
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…