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Research Project
Promoting consumers’ rights, prosperity, and wellbeing are core values of the European Union. A wide array of laws, institutions, and regulations – which can be generally termed as consumer policies – aim at protecting consumers by ensuring adequate and truthful information in the marketplace as well as preventing firms from engaging in unfair and competition-impairing practices. While some of...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The rapid loss of biodiversity and ongoing climate change are also the result of intensive agriculture. At the same time, they jeopardize agriculture and food security. The Leibniz Lab "Systemic Sustainability" brings together relevant knowledge in science and society on this fundamental challenge in order to promote the development and implementation of systemic solutions.
The current socio...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
Organizing long-term care (LTC) is one of the most pressing challenges for the coming years, both societally and politically. Across OECD countries, the proportion of individuals aged 80 and above will increase from an average of nearly five to almost ten percent of the population by 2050 (OECD, 2020). This rapid aging will have sizable implications for the demand and provision of LTC. The issue...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The war of aggression Russia has been waging on Ukraine since February 24, 2022, has triggered the largest movement of refugees in Europe since World War II. Between the start of the war and January 2023, more than one million people have fled Ukraine to Germany.
The refugee migration from Ukraine differs from previous waves of refugee migration with regard to three institutional framework...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The MINDSET_Clean_H2 research project aims to develop innovative open-source models that align the uptake of hydrogen (H2) in the EU with developments in international markets. By combining game-theoretic analyses with numerical modelling and machine learning methods, a set of instruments is developed that can also be used in the face of changing regulation and market developments. The aim is to...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The aim is to examine how the introduction of a guaranteed pension affects people with low net incomes, broken down by East and West, women and men, and year of birth.
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
Research about foreign exchange interventions has received renewed attention during the last years. This becomes most visible in various recent studies by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which assess foreign exchange interventions quite favorably.While the interest in the subject has increased, available data are still insufficient. Empirical studies in this field are basically a collection...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The Project Synthetic Health Data for Research and Policy which is part of the Leibniz Lab "Pandemic Preparedness" aims to develop methods for generating synthetic health data for pandemic research and policy advice. The project will involve several key steps:
Data Review: Analysis and categorization of existing health datasets in Germany, focusing on infectious diseases and personal or...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The aim of the project is to calculate the effects of a further (continuous) increase in the standard retirement age on the gross returns on pension insurance contributions of different cohorts. The project is divided into three modules. In the first module, the mechanisms are presented that take effect in the pay-as-you-go German pension system when the retirement age is raised for certain groups...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
In this project, we are investigating the effects in Germany and France of a series of measures that have directly or indirectly changed the pension entitlements of people whose careers have been interrupted due to health problems or labor market crises.
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
In the project, the differences between the German and Austrian pension systems are to be systematized and analyzed on the basis of administrative microdata and dynamic simulation models. In contrast to the previous use of stylized biographies or empirical averages, the added value of the project lies in the analysis based on microdata as well as in the differentiated consideration of individual...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre, the German Institute for Economic Research, and Justus-Liebig-University Gießen jointly conduct research on scenario analysis as a tool on the path to climate neutrality. The three-year project SATISFY will produce insights into how investors, firms, and regulators can use scenario analysis in the climate transformation of business models in carbon...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Rationality and Competition” combines the research programs of behavioral and neoclassical economists to study applied economic questions that are of high policy relevance. The focus CRC TRR 190 is on the economic behavior and performance of individuals and firms: How do systematic biases in expectations, decision processes, and preferences affect the...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
This project will create a methodological framework for embedding a transition model with free (unknown) parameters in a dynamic, small-scale microsimulation. A transition model of this kind will also enable latent and/or only partially observed processes to be represented in a microsimulation. The key element for embedding a transition model with free parameters is a metamodel (or statistical...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
To address persistent data limitations in entrepreneurship research, the SOEP-LEE2 project is being implemented in cooperation with the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Helmut Schmidt University (HSU). The project aims to create a unique linked data infrastructure that connects detailed individual-level information on entrepreneurs, including their personal and household characteristics, with...
Current Project| Entrepreneurship
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Research Project
The aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive yet consistent and differentiated presentation of the production of construction services by the construction industry and other economic sectors and the demand for construction services in the form of investments and maintenance measures. On the demand side, the volume of new building construction is also quantified for the areas of residential...
Current Project| Firms and Markets, Macroeconomics
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Research Project
Individuals are embedded in social contexts: although many large-scale, cross-thematic social science surveys already attempt to do justice to this fact, so far research has only been partially successful.
The aim of this study is to supplement and improve the existing data collection strategies - survey designs for multiple actors (MA) and questionnaire modules for egocentric networks (ECN) -...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Sustainable Finance Research Platform is a network of five German research institutions. With their independent research, the project partners aim to support stakeholders in politics, the financial sector, and the real economy in understanding and shaping the central role of capital markets in achieving a net-zero economy.
The researchers involved answer social, political, and business...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The Pension Commission has the task of examining, by 2026, “a new indicator for an overall level of old-age provision across all three pension pillars.” This debate will also shape pension policy in 2026. With a study, we aim to contribute to this discussion. We examine which replacement rates insured persons aim for and how large the gap is between the target replacement rate and the replacement...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The project will explore the economic and social effects the mitigation policies and information environment that COVID-19 spawned. We will link those policies to data from ongoing household-based panel studies from 10 countries and rich administrative data from an eleventh. We will exploit the substantial intra and inter-country temporal and geographic variation in non-pharmacological...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study