The aim of this project is to discuss the perspectives for innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany for the 2015 to 2025 period to identify major trends and challenges. The project…
This research project aims at analyzing the economic effects of earthquake risk realization, using the example of urban housing prices in China. Empirical evidence as to how catastrophic tail events affect …
The project investigates the economic importance of trade secrets (TS) and their relationship to intellectual property rights (IR) and other appropriability mechanisms. The study will be composed of two parts: A…
The objective of the project is to identify and construct forward-looking indicators in order to assess the developments in the markets of selected sectors and regularly deliver them to Evonik Industries AG…
The energy sector is central to worldwide climate protection strategies as it produces a large amount of carbon emissions. However, the effect of emissions reduction policies such as the EU Emissions Trading…
The willingness of investors to build (new) power plants when necessary is a key question in the context of the current debate of an adequate design of electricity markets. This study contributes to the public…
Innovation has been placed at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy, notably in order to tackle major societal challenges such as climate change, energy scarcity, health and ageing. The Innovation Union (IU) has…
The exchange of information between tax authorities is a key instrument in the fight against international tax avoidance and evasion. A better understanding of the factors driving the exchange of information is…
The project analysed financing conditions for energy retrofits by condominium owner associations (COA) in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Increasing the rate of energy saving refurbishments in the…
This project analyses in detail some aspects of the current taxation system and determines a few ways in which multinational enterprises might use its loopholes for tax-planning purposes. For example, it is…
The research questions that we answered in this work were as follows:What distribution effects can result from environmental regulation in the form of excise taxes for households of different income levels and…
The overall aim of the research project STEP_BY_STEP is to investigate behavioral responses to different energy conservation campaigns at the household level in four different European countries (Spain, Italy, …