This report offers an extensive analysis of the effects of the EU Single Market. It sheds light on four interrelated aspects: It first reveals the asymmetric economic performance across member countries, which also mirrors structural differences. These differences in economic outcomes are next...

China ist ein wichtiger Handelspartner der Europäischen Union und zudem neuer Systemwettbewerber. Sorgen bereiten aus europäischer Sicht vor allem die ökonomischen Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch den chinesischen Staatskapitalismus, die sich zunehmend auch auf den Weltmärkten auswirken....

The study serves as a background document for the European Commission and is conducted in close cooperation with the ZEW Mannheim. The main tasks are to define the concept of competitiveness at the micro, meso, and macro levels of economic activity, to establish a set of indicators that is...