To date, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided around 400 cases in the field of direct taxation and has thus considerably shaped the applicable tax law in the EU Member States: Apart from necessary…
There is a general consensus among both policy-makers and the general public that tax systems in induztrialized countries are too complicated and that it is generally desirable to have simpler tax systems. This…
Recent trends in productivity growth and differences in productivity levels between countries have been increasingly associated with widespread differences between firms within sectors, both in technology use and…
Admissions rules play an important role in many aspects of life. Among others, they regulate the allocation of students to schools. Today digitalisation enables decision makers to use computer-based matching…
The project aims on analyzing, testing, and potentially redesigning the mechanism for the procurement of power plant redispatch in the German transmission grid for electric power.
The goal of this project is to evaluate the functioning of the market for technologies: the processes through which technologies and intellectual property rights are traded or licensed. Prior studies have…
Building on the Socio-Ecologic Panel (SÖP) established in the BMBF-funded project Eval-MAP (www.rwi-essen.de/eval-map), the objectives of the proposed project Eval-MAP II are twofold. First, we will undertake…
The aim of this project was to investigate whether the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 causally effected self-employment. The project was conducted using data on self-employment from…
During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…
Digitalisation of the economy and society is a significant driver of changes in lifestyles and the work environment. The increasingly decentralized availability and rapidly developing capacity of information and…
In this research project we present the commonly employed set of innovation indicators and demonstrate the limitations thereof. Our target is to develop new approaches in order to tackle and remedy these…
The project "The relevance of non-state actors for individual climate protection activities and climate policy: A theoretical, experimental, and empirical analysis (NostaClimate)", financed by the Federal Ministry…