ZEW Discussion Papers

Overview

Researchers at the ZEW participate in scientific debates by publishing their papers. The papers are predominantly in English (marked). For the German papers an English abstract is available. The contributions are intended for a final publication in special interest titles. The discussion papers can be downloaded as PDF or PostScript files starting from 1.1.1998. They aimed at national and international target groups.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-065 // 2020

    Champions of Digital Transformation? The Dynamic Capabilities of Hidden Champions

    Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation capabilities and economic performance. However, empirical evidence on how the digital…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-068 // 2020

    Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic

    We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-067 // 2020

    Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets

    Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-066 // 2020

    Understanding the Response to High-Stakes Incentives in Primary Education

    This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-064 // 2020

    Elite Structure and the Provision of Health-Promoting Public Goods

    We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-063 // 2020

    On the Determinants and Effects of Corporate Tax Transparency: Review of an Emerging Literature

    In response to discussions about large multinational enterprises’ tax planning activities, legislators around the world have adopted numerous regulations to increase corporate tax transparency. New settings and…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-062 // 2020

    The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-) Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-061 // 2020

    Exporting Costs and Multi-Product Shipments

    In this paper, employing transaction level data for Russian imports, we explore the role of multi-product shipments in explaining shipping patterns across countries. First, we document that firms from more…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-060 // 2020

    Klimapolitik zwischen Markt, Deliberation und Hegemonie – Der Emissionshandel und das Politische

    Originating in neoclassical economic theory, emission trading figures prominently in the increasingly pressing debate on how to resolve the ecological crisis. This paper elaborates three normative premises…

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