This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

Die Wachstumsaussichten für die Weltwirtschaft sind verhalten. Die Weltkonjunktur expandiert 2023 und 2024 nur moderat. Das Welt-BIP steigt im Jahresdurchschnitt in beiden Jahren jeweils um 2,7 %, nach 3,4 % im vergangenen Jahr. Die deutsche Wirtschaft wird sich 2023 nach der schwachen...

This study considers how best to maintain a globally thriving EU car sector in the face of several interrelated challenges. The climate emergency necessitates a dramatic reduction in emissions to net-zero impacting across the economy, which leads to a fundamental shift in automotive products and...