In this project, we analyse the differences in employment durations of workers within the same enterprise. Apart from well-established theoretical approaches, such as human capital theory or search and matching…
In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICT) have diffused rapidly in both economy and private life. A differentiated look at the tendencies of the ICT diffusion shows that not all population…
Among researchers from energy sciences and economics the topic of "Hydrogen as Energy Carrier" is being hotly debated. On the one hand there will be enthusiastic visions of the hydrogen economy, bolstering…
Syndication, which is the common financing of a project or an investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many segments of the financial market (e.g. credit…
The positive correlation of transport and economic developmet has in many cases been empirically tested and asserted. Nonetheless, a multitude of technically oriented investigations further results that contradict…
Competitiveness is becoming to be more and more of a central criterion fort he assessment of policy-based intervention on national and EU levels. Adhering to this development is the internally projected fusion of…
Although at the ZEW microeconomic and microeconometric research approaches are dominant, each research department at the ZEW always takes the macroeconomic environment into account as well. “Analysis of Growth and…
Countries react with very different speed to changes in their economic environment caused by globalisation and demographic change. In particular, the big countries of the Euro zone appear to be slow in adjusting…
In a time of growing numbers of patent applications and a more intensified discussion about the broadening of patentability and the linked changing of patent quality a differentiated investigation of the quality…
The project FAZIT analysed current and future developments of the IT and media sector in the state of Baden-Württemberg as well as the significance of IT and media technologies for economy and society for the time…
Within the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union has committed itself to substantial reductions in overall CO2 emissions. As an ongoing process, this commitment was broken down into sector and country specific…