The most recent survey of international companies conducted by BAK Konjunkturforschung Basel AG concludes that taxation is one of the most important considerations for companies when deciding where to locate. …
The European Commission has received a mandate from the Council for a study on taxation in the EU. This study should illuminate, among other things and taking into account the results of the Ruding-Report (1992),…
This project is intended to stimulate research co-operation on the topic how employment growth of low qualified and badly paid can be reached without inducing a working poor effect. In this project, 5 topics are…
This project concerns the study of policy issues in the energy/environment domain with the help of the GEM-E3 model, a full scale general equilibrium model for the 15 EU-countries that represents…
Lack of qualified IT personnel is at the centre of public and scientific interest. One cause for lack of qualified personnel is that the extent of the strong dynamism in the area of information and communications…
Die Arbeitsgruppe, an der alle Forschungsbereiche des ZEW beteiligt sind, setzt sich hauptsächlich mit mikroökonomischen Fragen der Digitalen Ökonomie auseinander, welche durch die zunehmende Entwicklung und…
Joint Implementation (JI) has been defined in the Kyoto Protocol as one of the major 'flexible mechanisms' by which to tackle issues of climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
The development of traditional Regional Economics into what has been called New Economic Geography meant uniting all of the ZEW´s research departments into a collaborating team. Despite its clear roots in the…
This project investigated the institutionalisation of multilateral environmental negotiations. In particular, using a game theoretical approach, the results achieved in international climate negotiations were…