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Growing Out of the Crisis: DIW Berlin Proposes European Investment Fund

An investment fund should temporarily improve the capital stock of small and medium-sized enterprises as part of a comprehensive agenda - In the euro area, there is an annual investment gap of approximately two percent of GDP or 180 billion euros - Many sectors both in the manufacturing and service industries are showing signs of a significant lack of investment, especially the energy sectorThe German ...

"We Need to Give Impetus to the Private Sector": Six Questions to Marcel Fratzscher

"We Need to Give Impetus to the Private Sector": Six Questions to Marcel Fratzscher

Europe’s Investment Slump: Five Questions to Claus Michelsen

Europe’s Investment Slump: Five Questions to Claus Michelsen

An Investment Agenda for Europe

Only strong economic growth will help Europe emerge from its crisis. The reforms implemented to date at national and European level have failed to impact the economypositively; this is due to excessive national, corporate, and private debts, the flawed banking system, the lack of structural reforms, an insufficient institutional framework at European level, as well as a persisting climate of distrust ...

We Need to Give Impetus to the Private Sector: Six Questions to Marcel Fratzscher

Weak Investment Dampens Europe’s Growth

In the course of the economic and financial crisis, investment activity, which was not very strong to begin with, in Europe and especially the Eurozone caved in. In relation to gross domestic product, fixed capital formation declined by four percentage points since 2008. Already prior to the crisis, investment activity was rather weak in parts of the Eurozone — amongst others in Germany. This finding ...

Europe’s Investment Slump: Five Questions to Claus Michelsen

Weak Investment in the EU: A Long-Term Cross-Sectoral Phenomenon

Based on capital stock, in total, over six trillion euros less was invested in the European Union between 1999 and 2007 than in the non-European OECD countries, including the US, Canada, and Japan. In the euro area, investment was more than 7.5 trillion euros less than in non-European OECD countries. In virtually all EU member states, gross fixed assets (capital stock) are older than the OECD average ...

European Energy Sector: Large Investments Required for Sustainability and Supply Security

For the European Union to keep on track with its energy and climate targets, large investments are required in electricity generation, infrastructure and energy efficiency. The electricity sector takes the center stage. This article delivers an overview of several estimates of the investment requirement in the European energy sector and estimates the total required investment expenditures until 2030. ...

Reducing Choice Overload without Reducing Choices

Abstract:Previous studies have demonstrated that a multitude of options can lead to choice overload, reducing decision quality. Through controlled experiments, we examine sequential choice architectures that enable the choice set to remain large while potentially reducing the effect of choice overload. A specific tournament-style architecture achieves this goal. An alternate architecture in which...