There is an increasingly large overlap between digital and classical product markets. Nowadays, job offers can be called up online, used cars are traded over the internet, online auctions take place. The internet…
This project investigates the impact of the knowledge economy on employment generation in Europe. It will first construct knowledge indicators for selected European countries, such as ICT (information and…
For a comprehensive study on behalf of the European Commission, a new methodology for computing effective tax burdens has been implemented and applied. This methodology, developed by Devereux and Griffith…
It was the aim of this project to evaluate the current status of Cental and Eastern European capital markets (particularly in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) and to develop proposals for policy actions…
The spread of flexible working hours has increased sharply in recent years. Usually the decrease of overtime and subsequent reductions in costs are stated as a motivation for the implementation of flexible working…
Seemingly parallel to the increase in the evaluation of labour market policies runs the politically motivated desire for evaluation of policies in the environmental field. While, however, a host of studies works…
Since the introduction of the Euro, Europe’s financial markets are often regarded as highly integrated. The study clarifies that this is not true, in particular with regard to retail financial services. The study…
Innovation is widely considered to be a primary source of economic growth and policies to stimulate firm-level innovation are high on the agenda in most countries. This research project is aimed at the exploration…
Through June 25./26. 2001, the ZEW held an international workshop titled „Empirical Modeling of the Economy and the Environment“, celebrating 10 years since the ZEW's foundation and, at the same time, the 60.…
Entscheidungen für eine bestimmte Form der privaten Altersvorsorge sind notwendigerweise mit einem hohen Grad an Unsicherheit behaftet. Besondere Schwierigkeiten bereitet der lange Zeithorizont des…