Hubertus Bardt IW-Policy Paper No. 5 23. July 2024
Trump or Harris or ...? What Europe must prepare for
A few months before the presidential election in the USA, Donald Trump has a good chance of being re-elected. On the Democratic side, the incumbent president has withdrawn his candidacy after a long period of hesitation, while Vice President Kamala Harris is highly likely to run for the Democrats. This means very different policy scenarios for economic policy and ...
Compendium 5.5: CO2 Regulation of Road Transport in Europe
Thomas Puls
With the Compendium CO2 Regulation in Europe, the IW has been providing the interested public with a comprehensive collection of data on the development of CO2 emissions from passenger car traffic in the European Union, as well as on the applicable regulatory framework, since 2015.
Data Utilisation and Data Sharing: The Potential and the Reality in German Companies
Dennis Bakalis / Jan Büchel
Companies that store their data extensively in digital form, process it in a structured manner and use it in a variety of ways can become particularly efficient members of the data economy.
Competitive pressure from China for German companies
Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz
A firm survey conducted in March/April 2024 as part of the IW-Zukunftspanel among around 900 German companies from the manufacturing and industrial services sectors shows that around 350 of the companies surveyed have Chinese competitors in their markets.
As the German population ages, the country’s statutory pension scheme, which is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, requires higher and higher contributions while the level of pensions is falling.
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Samina Sultan
This study, based on the IW-People Survey 2024, shows that around 62% of Germans consider the election of the European Parliament to be important. This is the result of around 5,200 respondents. The proportion is therefore roughly as high as the voter turnout in 2019.
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Samina Sultan IW
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