The president of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Professor Clemens Fuest, has been appointed to the Minimum Wage Commission, which starts work on January 1, 2015. Professor Fuest sits on the…
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled the German inheritance tax in its current form illegal. Inheritance tax breaks for family-run businesses, the judges decided, violate the constitutional…
ZEW participates in the ASSA Annual Meeting in Boston from January 3-5, 2015. The widely-attended event, which is organised by the American Economic Association, is the world’s most important conference for…
During the 20th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 195 member states are struggling to propose a draft agreement for…
Bouwe Dijkstra, PhD, was a visiting researcher at ZEW’s Research Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” from December 7 to 11, 2014. He is associate professor with the…
