Die Politik diskutiert aktuell einen Digitalen Produktpass (DPP) als zentrales Instrument zum Aufbau einer Circular Economy, die über eine möglichst lange Nutzung von Ressourcen ein wichtiger Enabler der Klimaneutralität ist. Obwohl es bislang noch kein einheitliches, branchen- und...

Following the 'death of distance' postulate, digitization may reduce or even eliminate the penalty of firms being located in rural areas compared with those in urban agglomerations. Despite many recent attempts to measure digitization effects across space, there remains a lack of empirical...

Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the potential to reduce overall energy intensity within economic sectors. While previous empirical evidence is based on aggregated data, this is the first large-scale empirical study...

The use of a semi-structural model as one of the workhorse tools for macroeconomic analysis and projections at the Bundesbank has a long-standing tradition. In an iterative projection process, the macroeconometric model's main task is to merge projections by Bundesbank experts for various areas...

Marginal employment, so-called Minijobs, represent a significant part of the dependent employment in Germany. In 20121 and 2016 the RWI conducted a survey and interviewed marginally employed workers and employers with marginally employed workers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The results of the...

We propose a model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of the relationship between subjective well-being and satisfaction in various domains of life using a partial least squares path modelling approach in a structural equation model framework. A drawback of these models is that they...

Unique knowledge is a key factor for companies for generating new products, services and processes and thus, to remain competitive. It is increasingly emerging outside of firm boundaries. Universities and public research institutions have been identified as important sources of new knowledge....

In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...

Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of financing frictions. Our main findings can be...

In this article, we provide empirical evidence of the recent financial crisis over2007–2009 using discrete time multivariate GARCH (MGARCH) models andcontinuous time modelling approaches. Using daily data for 14 countries, weinvestigate the return and volatility spillovers among the US and...