Studies

Companies that store their data extensively in digital form, process it in a structured manner and use it in a variety of ways can become particularly efficient members of the data economy.

Dennis Bakalis / Jan Büchel IW

A firm survey conducted in March/April 2024 as part of the IW-Zukunftspanel among around 900 German companies from the manufacturing and industrial services sectors shows that around 350 of the companies surveyed have Chinese competitors in their markets.

Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz IW

As the German population ages, the country’s statutory pension scheme, which is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, requires higher and higher contributions while the level of pensions is falling.

Jochen Pimpertz / Ruth Maria Schüler IW

This study, based on the IW-People Survey 2024, shows that around 62% of Germans consider the election of the European Parliament to be important. This is the result of around 5,200 respondents. The proportion is therefore roughly as high as the voter turnout in 2019.

Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Samina Sultan IW

In this study an analytical scheme is developed to operationalise the objective of strategic autonomy in a cost-effective way.

Jürgen Matthes IW

Using the classification system from the European Patent Office (EPO), we identify almost 600,000 patent applications for fourth industrial revolution technologies from 1986 to 2015.

Armin Mertens / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics IW

This article intends to provide a framework to better understand the economic problems and legal challenges resulting from the transition of the European economy to a data economy.

Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics IW

This special issue on “The Law and Economics of the Data Economy” for the “European Journal of Law and Economics” collects 8 contributions from 15 authors of 7 countries (Belgium, Hungary, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA).

Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen (Eds.) in European Journal of Law and Economics IW

The German labor market has been growing since 2005. The dip in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic between 2020 and 2022 is an exception, as the German labor market has reached a record level of 45.9 million people in employment by 2023.

Michael Grömling / Stefanie Seele IW

In 2019, Bardt et al. (2019) initially presented a comprehensive estimate of the unmet public investment needs in Germany not covered in household planning at the time, totaling around €460 billion over ten years.

Sebastian Dullien* / Simon Gerards Iglesias / Michael Hüther / Katja Rietzler* IW