Legal interest rate restrictions have been a controversial issue among economists for centuries. In practice, several countries have imposed different rules on interest rate ceilings as well as the…
This subproject of the interdisciplinary project "An infrastructure for the analysis of social networks" deals with the economic analysis of social links in online networks. It considers networks for entertaining…
The core of this project is the analysis of research questions in various areas of applied competition policy. It aims at promoting economic and econometric work in competition policy cases and regulation issues.…
The objective of this research network was the use of innovative approaches to shed light on questions regarding a long-term and integrated climate and energy policy from an economic perspective. First, the…
The aim of the project was to define the operational determinants of IT outsourcing, using data of the ZEW ICT-survey and adequate statistically-econometric methods.Central to this analysis was the question of…
The project aimed on building the groundwork for a future cooperation between the Department of Environmental and Resource Economics at ZEW and the Center for Energy Economics and Strategy Studies at Fudan…
The project focuses on the international context of collective reform decisions in the public sector. The project has two key objectives: First it will deepen our theoretical understanding of the cross-border…
Emission Trading is seen as one of the most important instruments to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases efficiently and to prevent dramatic climate changes.In general it is expected that a higher degree of…
The German Taxpayer Panel which is provided by the Federal Statistical Office and which has recently been developed, offers very rich data for the empirical analysis of tax effects. So far, this data set has…
The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns that such indicators should be…
Companies that newly enter the market face the challenge of generating a competitive advantage over their rivals. Research and development activities (R&D) as well as the implementation of product or process…
Market-oriented reforms regularly encounter resistance among the general public. Even reforms that are considered to be efficient by economic experts are often rejected by voters e.g., based on fairness…