The project aims at assessing the economic relevance of credit scoring. The central topics are the usefulness of credit scores for the prediction of credit risks as well the effects of credit scoring on future …
From the perspective of optimal currency areas, a monetary union such as the euro area which is characterized by low labor mobility needs fiscal institutions which may have stabilizing effects in the case of…
The debate on the competences between the EU and its member states has risen in line with the most recent financial and debt crisis. While some supporter of the EU argue that its competences are still too small…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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…