Well before the Great Recession, the strikingly successful socio-economic regime of growth of the three decades after WWII came to an end as the smooth matching among technological innovation, productivity growth,…
Private investment in innovation is often at sub-optimal levels because of various types of market failure. In response, governments support private innovation initiatives by lowering their cost through, for…
In order for the expected growth, productivity and innovation potential of modern ICT applications to be realized on the demand side, the renewal of existing base broadband infrastructure or its (partial)…
This project continues ZEW’s line of research on EU fiscal institutions. The focus is on documenting potential political biases in existing and newly created European instruments and then studying their…
The value of data has become a central topic of the public debate. On the one hand, new, data-based technologies have an enormous innovation potential due to improved information flows and decision quality. On the…
The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…
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…
Mitigating the effects of climate change represents one of the major global societal challenges. In the framework of the COP21 held in Paris in 2015, the international community agreed to limit global temperature…
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…
Designing internal labour markets and reducing frictions in employee retention is an important challenge for human resource management (HRM). The aim of the project was twofold. The first part investigated…
As part of the project, the most important economic indicators of the film industry in Baden-Württemberg were compiled in a brief expert report for the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in…
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…