The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and...

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a group of experts from 15 national central banks and the...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

Strategic reserves are in principle well suited to address both generation adequacy and system security in power markets. Depending on the power system and on the network topology, a strategic reserve has to be designed to fulfill both objectives. For the design of a strategic reserve (SR) in...

TTRIOPOL studies the role of domestic bioenergy potentials for agriculture, the wider economy and international trade for Austria. In particular, agricultural biomass pro-duction can contribute to significant shares of energy provision in Austria. A detailed scenario is developed to explore the...

The paper reports the outcome of the stress-testing of liquidity risk in the TARGET2 payment system, with the study having been conducted by an ad-hoc group composed of operators and overseers of TARGET2. The study aims to assess the resilience of the system, defined as the network of its...

Mit dem dargestellten Arbeitsangebotsmodul wird das Steuer-, Abgaben- und Transfer-Mikrosimulationsmodell des IW Köln um eine tragende Komponente erweitert, die die Simulation von Zweitrundeneffekten in Folge von Änderungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems auf unterschiedliche...

Das Modul "Arbeitslosengeld" ist ein optionaler Baustein des Mikrosimulationsmodells des IW Köln (STATS). Es zielt darauf ab, die Modellierung einer Arbeitsangebotssimulation zu unterstützen, indem der Anspruch auf Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) abgebildet wird. Dazu werden die Ansprüche von...