ZEW Discussion Papers

Private enforcement of competition law is on the rise worldwide and a major item on the EU competition policy agenda. The relevant provisions in the EU and the US confer a right to damages to "any individual"…

Knowledge creation is a key driver of growth in modern economies. The creation of knowledge is often comparable to the accumulation of tangible capital: In the current period, investments are made in order to…

Trademarks are treated negligent in the scholarly innovation discourse. In contrast to other intellectual property rights, trademarks are not intended traditionally to protect immediately valuable information.…

Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Standards define a set of technical specifications which…

In environmental economics there is a growing literature on the valuation of environmental externalities using consumer willingness to pay, which is a relevant input for welfare analysis of projects targeting…

Management scholars predominantly advocate that startup teams should consist of members with different rather than similar backgrounds. Such heterogeneous team members are supposed to bring in a greater variety…

Demographic ageing has increasingly become one of the most pressing challenges that industrialized economies are facing in the 21st century. In particular, this trend has raised the concern that an ageing…

Immigrants are a disadvantaged group on European labour markets. In most countries, they are over-represented in unemployment and under-represented in employment. To integrate immigrants into the labour market,…

This paper examines the effect of an investigation report by the competition authority on the pass-through of EU emission allowance (EUA) prices to German electricity wholesale prices.

Since January 2005, the…