The digitalisation of production and business processes has been continuously accelerating over the years. Moreover, digital technologies increasingly foster the creation of new business models. It is widely…
ZEW researchers provided research support to the independent advisory board of the German stability council. They assist the council organizationally and contentwise with the preparation of its biannual…
The aim of the project is to show and evaluate policy options for a regulatory framework for the digital economy. The project will deal with the digital economy in the strict sense, i.e. the provision of digital…
There is a controversial public debate on the consequences of an increasingly digitalized world of work on the society and economy. In particular, fears are raised that jobs might be increasingly at risk due to…
The strong alignment of long-term bond yields of euro countries, which actually have different degrees of credit-worthiness, is evidence for the fact that meanwhile investors assume at least a partial factual…
Using panel data on the population of corporate tax-returns of Armenian firms, this project studies the behavioral response of firms to three size-dependent regulations: i) a tax-notch created by the value …
On behalf of the European Commission, ZEW computes measures of corporate effective taxation in Europe based on the Devereux-Griffith (DG) methodology on a yearly basis. For the computation of the effective tax…
The purpose of this project is to reveal the essential challenges of the innovation hub Germany and to advance proposals for an improvement of the innovation performance of the German economy. Focal points are the…
Offshoring affects European labour markets. The increase of offshoring to China and Eastern Europe has reduced wage growth for low qualified in Western Europe. While in some regions, it has led to an increase of…
In January 2013, the German Interurban Bus Industry was liberalized and therefore opened for competition. Against this background, the projects aim at constructing a panel data set that can subsequently be used to…
"The 'Innovation Indicator' is an initiative that has been initiated by Deutsche Telekom Stiftung and Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) in 2005 and which has been continued as a joint activity of the…
In order to realize the growth, innovation and productivity potential related to (new) communications infrastructure, the European Commission´s “Digital Agenda for Europe” specifies ambitious goals in terms of…