Innovation is one of the major drivers of economic growth, where spatial processes of knowledge spillover play a vital role. Current practices in assessing firms’ innovation activity, including patent…
This paper studies the distributional effects of rising energy costs for households. In contrast to most of the previous literature, our specification differentiates between electricity and heating demand and…
This study investigates the within-country heterogeneity of material footprints implied by households’ consumption in Germany. Material footprints are defined as the amount of biomass, minerals, and fossil…
Das Geschäftsjahr 2017 hat für die weitere Zukunft des Zentrums für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim eine zentrale Entscheidung gebracht. Der strategische Ausbau des Forschungsinstituts zu einem…
While many central governments amalgamate municipalities, mergers of larger county administrations are rare and hardly explored. In this paper, we assess both fiscal and political effects of county mergers in…
