The project aims to shed light on the impact of market entry on the economy’s growth and innovation capacity as well as aggregate productivity development.
The impact of market entry on aggregate productivity is…
The project comprises 4 modules: Module 1 contains the preparation of data of the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and its provision for a Survey of German companies conducted by Kantar. In module 2 we analyse the…
Upon German reunification, the East German states adopted the West German health insurance system, although some special regulations applied. In particular, the official fee schedule for private health insurance…
In 2017, healthcare expenditure in Germany amounted to €380 billion, or €4,544 per inhabitant, increasing by 4.7% compared to 2016 (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2019). Part of this expenditure comes from the…
Global environmental problems, like climate change or the depletion of the ozone layer, are due to stock pollutants (e.g. CO2). As solving them requires multilateral action, international environmental agreements…
CEP services (courier, express and parcel services) currently show a strong growth trend both in Germany and in other European countries such as Poland. As the demand for CEP services increases, so does the…
The aim of this research was to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Brandenburg in the years 2017 to 2019 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2020…
The aim of this study was to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2020. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in…
Empirical assessment of the current state of competition and innovation in the market for medical supplies and instruments for a better understanding of key drivers of health care costs in this country. Within…
During the debate on base erosion and profit shifting of multinational firms, the claim for the disclosure of certain tax-related information on a per-country basis, the so called country-by-country reporting…
This study for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen utilizes the ZEW-Mikrosimulation-Model and houshold survey-data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) to evaluate a proposed…
The intended renewal of broadband infrastructure and, associated therewith, the deployment of high capacity fibre networks challenges the current Regulatory Framework. The “European Electronic Communication Code”…