In 1998 Prognos (Basle), formerly ProgTrans AG, and ZEW (Mannheim) developed a kind of economic indicator for the transport industry. The panel comprised of approx. 300 selected experts from the transport industry…
This project intends to close a gap between empirical and theoretical capital market research. The stochastic processes for stock price developments that have so far been derived in theoretical research are only…
Although the lending business is of great importance to the earnings and risk situation of banks, there are few empirical studies on the lending and credit surveillance process. The research project "Loan…
From an economic perspective the continuing debate about environmental taxes, particularly in connection with climate protection, essentially revolves around two questions: -the effects of such taxes on…
An den internationalen Aktienmärkten kann seit längerem eine zunehmende Institutionalisierung festgestellt werden. Dies bedeutet, dass immer mehr privates Kapital von institutionellen Investoren, wie z. B.…
The ZEW´s macro-econometric model for Germany (Mannheim Macroeconometric Model) facilitates, on the basis of the neo-Keynesian theory, the analysis of economic processes and the classification of specific…
This research project aims at making technological and economic information on renewable energies available on the Internet in a standardised form. We want to make it possible for users to obtain data on the…
The research project builds on the results achieved in the previous "Indicative Analysis for Future Directions of Environmental Technologies Research in the State of Baden-Württemberg" by ZEW and Prognos in the…