Research Projects

Environmental protection as an Economic Factor: Survey of Environmental Protection Employment and Updating of Important Indicators of the Competitiveness of the Environmental Protection Industry

Estimation of Annual Vehicle Mileage Based on Odometer Readings

EU Climate and Energy Policy post 2020

European capital markets and macroeconomic stability: The role of equity and debt

European Gas Infrastructure

European Observatory on the Social situation – LOT 1: Demography 

Evaluating the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany (EVA-MIN)

Innovative Knowledge Transfer and Evidence-Based EvaluationHow the new minimum wage legislation, which goes into effect on January 1, 2015, is an open question. It is thus all the more important that the effects of the new minimum wage should be evaluated scientifically, for which this project will provide an important database. Researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research...

Evaluation and Further Development of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS 5)

Evaluation of "Zwanzig20 - Partnerschaft für Innovation"

Evaluation of Business Coaching for Start-ups

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the rent control introduced in 2015 to dampen rent increases in tight housing markets (Mietpreisbremse)

The project investigates the effectiveness of the rent control for new rental contracts introduced in 2015. The effects of regulation on price formation in the regulated and unregulated housing market will be analyzed. In addition, the effects of the rent control on supply will be examined and the extent to which the law may have prevented investment will be studied.

Evaluation support study on the EU rules on State aid for access to finance for SMEs

As part of the evaluation process of the current State aid rules, the European Commission has awarded to the consortium of Lear, DIW Berlin, and Sheppard Mullin, a specific contract to carry out a study of the EU rules for State aid facilitating access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). These rules comprise the Guidelines on State aid to promote risk finance investments (RFG) and...

Expertise on Employment potential of older people

Families in Germany (FiD)

Subproject of the overall evaluation of the monetary family related benefits Families in Germany (FiD) was the first systematic, large-scale evaluation of the entire spectrum of public benefits to married people and families in Germany. The study was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF). The...

Family Ties and Household Behavior as Insurance against Health Risks and their Interaction with Public Insurance Mechanisms (Family Ties)

Feasibility Study - How can the economic importance of the social economy be measured

Financial Education: Measures, Experiences, Evaluation and Outlook

Fiscal competition, community expenditures and human capital 

Fiscal competition, local expenditures and human capital 

Fossil Resource markets and climate policy: Stranded assets, Expectations and the political Economy of climate change (FoReSee)

Project synopsis Achieving the Paris agreement requires a radical transformation of the inherently inert energy system. Assets in the form of fossil energy resources and existing infrastructure along the fossil value chain are at the risk of rapidly losing value and becoming „stranded assets”. Asset owners, therefore, have incentives to delay or even prevent the implementation of climate policies...