On 25 June 2024, a hot summer’s day, more than 60 teens and their teachers gathered at ZEW Mannheim for the YES! school competition. Participating in the annual Southwest Regional Final, they passiona
Rarely has a federal budget been subject to so much controversy as that for the coming year. Since the Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling in November 2023 on the federal government’s supplementa
Forderungen nach Lockerungen der Schuldenbremse haben seit dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum zweiten Nachtragshaushalt 2021 Auftrieb erhalten. Oft wird argumentiert, dass die Schuldenbre
This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German lin
In the year 2006, ZEW had developed the Country Index for Family Enterprises on behalf of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. The objective of this index is an international comparison of investment
Discussions on easing Germany’s debt brake are gaining momentum. Given the urgent need for future investment in infrastructure, education and digitalisation, a possible relaxation of this fiscal rule
Business cycle experts foresee only a slight rise in real GDP for the eurozone in 2024, with a more pronounced recovery not expected until 2025. For Germany, a somewhat more positive outlook is projec