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Economic Bulletin
by Jürgen Blazejczak, Dietmar Edler, Wolf-Peter Schill in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2014As part of the energy transition process, the German government has set far-reaching energy efficiency targets, including doubling the annual rate of building renovation to upgrade energy performance from one to two percent. DIW Berlin has estimated the additional energy-savings-related investment required to ...
11.04.2014
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Personnel news
Michael Zschille, from September 2009 to August 2013 doctoral student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and since September 2013 researcher at the department Firms and Markets, has successfully (summa cum laude) defended his doctoral thesis "Firm Performance and Industry Structure: Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis in the Water Sector" at the Technical University Berlin in February 2014. ...
03.03.2014
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Personnel news
Florian Mölders has successfully (summa cum laude) defended his doctoral thesis "Development, trade agreements and knowledge spillovers - Five empirical essays" at the University of Duisburg-Essen in February 2014. His thesis was supervised by Professor Ansgar Belke, University of Duisburg-Essen and Professor Matthias Busse, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since September 2009, Florian ...
03.03.2014
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Report
The German Science Foundation granted the 2-years project "Parallel imports, innovations, and generics: Competition in the German market for oral anti-diabetics" by Jun. Prof. Annika Herr (DICE) and Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and DICE). The primary focus of the research proposal is the empirical evaluation of parallel imports' competitive impact in on-patent drug markets. By means ...
10.02.2014
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Press Release
Following a decline last year and stagnation in 2013, the construction industry's economic prospects for 2014 are looking noticeably brighter. DIW Berlin expects more than six percent nominal growth for construction in Germany, or four percent in real terms, primarily as a result of persistently brisk residential construction activity and recovery in public-sector building. The core construction industry ...
20.11.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by Jürgen Blazejczak, Jochen Diekmann, Dietmar Edler, Claudia Kemfert, Karsten Neuhoff, Wolf-Peter Schill in: DIW Economic Bulletin 09/2013.Achieving the objectives of the German governments 2010 Energy Concept and the accelerated phase-out of nuclear energy will require significant investment in restructuring energy supply. In particular, this includes investment in installations for the ...
30.09.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, Friedrich Kunz, Roman Mendelevitch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 09/2013.In its Green Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies, the European Commission calls for a framework for the future development of environment and energy policy beyond 2020. However, much like the Energy Roadmap 2050 adopted by the Commission in December 2011, the Green ...
30.09.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by: S. Bach, G. Baldi, K. Bernoth, J. Blazejczak, B. Bremer, J. Diekmann, D. Edler, B. Farkas, F. Fichtner, M. Fratzscher, M. Gornig, C. Kemfert, U. Kunert, H. Link, K. Neuhoff, W.-P. Schill, C. K. Spieß in: DIW Economic Bulletin 08/2013. Shortly before the parliamentary election in 2013, Germany is riding on a wave of euphoria: hardly any other euro country has weathered the financial and debt ...
09.08.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by: Stefan Bach, Guido Baldi, Kerstin Bernoth, Björn Bremer, Beatrice Farkas, Ferdinand Fichtner, Marcel Fratzscher, Martin Gornig in: DIW Economic Bulletin 08/2013. While many countries in the euro area are deep in recession due to a debt and structural crisis, the German economy appears to have excelled compared to many other euro area countries. Unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since ...
09.08.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Heike Belitz, Alexander Eickelpasch, Anna Lejpras in: DIW Economic Bulletin 04/2013. The innovation policy of the German government and Länder provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a wide range of programs to promote their research and development (R&D) and focuses, in particular, on the transfer of knowledge. In recent years, the programs have been streamlined and ...
12.04.2013
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Personnel news
Tomaso Duso is the new Head of the Department Innovation, Manufacturing, Service since the 1st of April. He is Professor for Empirical Industrial Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Before, he has worked and researched at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) ...
04.04.2013
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Economic Bulletin
"Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises are Catching up" Seven Questions to Alexander Eickelpasch
08.10.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Research-Based Companies Perform BetterBy: Alexander Eickelpasch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2012.The past ten years have seen an expansion in industrial research. There has been a significant increase in the number of research-based companies, as well as in employment in research and development, and in expenditure in this area. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less research-intensive ...
08.10.2012
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Report
Abstract: Over the past few years, spin-off companies from research institutions have developed into a significant economic and innovation policy phenomenon. Along with licenses, patents, cooperative and consulting activities, academic spin-offs are considered to be an important mechanism for knowledge transfer, enabling industry to exploit the expertise and know-how gained through research. However, ...
05.09.2012
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Report
Abstract: The past ten years have seen an expansion in industrial research. There has been a significant increase in the number of research-based companies, as well as in employment in research and development, and in expenditure in this area. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less research-intensive branch lines and in small and medium-sized enterprises. Consequently, even over ...
29.08.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Internationalization of Business Research : New Locations Gaining GroundBy: Heike Belitz in: DIW Economic Bulletin 8/2012.In recent years, German and foreign companies have consistently increased their investment in Research and Development in Germany. In 2009, investment was over 45 billion euros which was a third higher than in 2001. While foreign companies have significantly expanded their Research ...
03.08.2012
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Report
By Astrid Cullmann, Kurt Geppert In this study, we explore how general socio-economic trends within the European Union are reflected in the development of different types of regions during the period from 1995 to 2009 and how economic disparities between EU regions change in the course of these processes. Overall, there is a decrease of regional inequalities in terms of per-capita income, but ...
11.06.2012
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Economic Bulletin
German Manufacturing Withstands the Rise of Emerging EconomiesBy: Martin Gornig and Alexander Schiersch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2012.Between 2000 and 2009, China became the second largest industrialized nation, while manufacturing industries in other emerging and many Eastern European countries also experienced very strong growth. However, Germany was largely able to maintain its share of global ...
04.05.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Germany's Construction Industry: Strong Growth Followed by Stagnationby Martin Gornig and Hendrik Hagedorn in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2012.2011 was one of the construction industry's strongest years of growth since German reunification. For the year as a whole, a nominal increase in construction volume of almost eight percent is expected. The price increase is forecast at over 2.5 percent. Real construction ...
09.01.2012
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Nachrichten
German Industry - a Tower of Strength? by Dorothea Lucke in: DIW Economic Bulletin Nr. 1/2012.By the summer of 2011, Germany industry was back at levels last achieved before the economic crisis, thanks to continuous growth in production since early 2009. The recovery was driven by strong domestic and foreign demand for German capital and intermediate goods. However, the Ifo Business Climate Index, ...
09.01.2012