Public debt is at the core of the current economic crisis in Europe. This implies that lowering public debt is one of the key policy challenges. However, while there is no shortage of policy recommendations…
Many observers argue that the European monetary union will not survive unless it is complemented by a ‘fiscal union’. In this context, the introduction of a fiscal capacity at the euro area level as proposed by…
The financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on public finances in Europe. The immediate short-term fiscal policy responses served to cushion some of the adverse effects of the crisis. But the initial…
Securing the financing constitutes is a real problem for many startup companies. So the hope is that Business Angels (BA) get more important as financial resource. BAs are organized in networks and organizations…
The purpose of the project is to analyse how firms’ extrovertedness affects their success. By extrovertedness we mean firms’ active use of social media and their passive presence in social media (media exposure).…
In the recent decades, economic research has begun to intensively analyze the role of agents’ expectations for economic outcomes. Academic studies acknowledge that the link between a piece of information and…
The KETs Observatory provides both quantitative and qualitative information on the development and deployment of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and supplies European and national policy-makers and business…
Against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone, the project has two objectives. First, the impact on the potential volume of work and thus on the potential output in the European crisis countries…
Reserve power markets face the challenge of balancing short-term fluctuations in the transportation grid to stabilize the power system’s frequency. The current reserve power market was designed at a time when…
The two German federal states of Bavaria and Hesse recently filed a lawsuit in the German supreme court against the current German vertical equalization scheme, which regulates the financial relationship of the…
The research project "Sociopolitical Impact of the German Energy Transition" examines the links between energy and social policy with help of empirical analyses and contributions of philosophy, economic ethics,…
This project aims at analysing the complementarity of investment in patents and trademarks for firm performance by employing an extensive data set of European firms. Patents and trademarks are both intellectual…