This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about...

This report elucidates the risk channels for EU economies associated with international financial integration and provides an overview of the macroprudential policy options that are available to address these risks. It builds on the main insights from the rich academic literature developed...

The article highlights the main trends in the development of world energy. The method of forecasting energy consumption is presented, taking into account the level and dynamics of energy consumption in general, as well as the use of individual energy resources with differentiation by countries...

Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism at the workplace and emerges naturally in open-source software development, the generation of online knowledge platforms, and to some extent in "agile" work environments. Using a field experiment with 8 treatments and close to 2,800 workers on an...

This research looks at the effectiveness of various regulatory approaches in terms of encouraging innovation. It is based on a literature review and 35 interviews with regulators, government actors, and companies. The report reviews examples across the following 5 broad types of...

Der Trend zu Do-It-Yourself (DIY) und offenem Wissensaustausch in Online-Communities fordert etablierte Institutionen heraus. Auch in avancierten Bereichen der Forschung und Entwicklung gelingt es alternativen Projektgemeinschaften inzwischen, Technologien und Wissen kostengünstiger und...

In dem folgenden Beitrag wird - wie bereits in der Vorwoche (Bardt/Grömling/Kolev, 2020) - ein ausgewählter Teil der (größtenteils) in der 13. Kalenderwoche veröffentlichten Konjunkturstudien zur Corona-Krise aufgeführt. Der Fokus richtet sich auf die Weltwirtschaft und die deutsche...

Wie in den vergangenen beiden Wochen (siehe Bardt/Grömling/Kolev, 2020a und 2020b) liefert das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft wieder eine kurze Übersicht über einen Teil der vorwiegend in der vorhergehenden Woche veröffentlichten Konjunkturnachrichten. In gewohnter Weise richtet sich der...

Im folgenden Beitrag wird ein Teil der aktuellen Konjunkturstudien zur Corona-Krise kurz aufgelistet und kommentiert. Der Fokus richtet sich zum einen auf die Weltwirtschaft und zum anderen auf die deutsche Wirtschaft. Die Sichtung der Studien wurde am 23. März 2020 abgeschlossen.

Sectoral convergence in R&D intensities among firms is a concept that, although rarely formalized, has been at the center of discussions of industrial and non-industrial actors, such as entrepreneurs, institutions and academics. Far from being a settled issue, the subject has seen very limited...

Despite a strong connection between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, climate change mitigation actions and sustainable development objectives are oftentimes not aligned efficiently, causing conflicts between the objectives. This thesis creates a systematic...

There is now a long history of countries improving sustainability standards in most parts of the economy while at the same time pursuing the ambitions of rules-based international trade and economic integration with other countries. It is not surprising that countries at the vanguard of...