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. 14-110 // 2014

    Overleveraging, Financial Fragility and the Banking-Macro Link: Theory and Empirical Evidence

    We investigate consequences of overleveraging and financial sector stress on real economic activities. When banks become vulnerable, due to high leveraging, and there is a strong feedback between the real and…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-109 // 2014

    Maternity Leave and Mothers' Long-Term Sickness Absence - Evidence from Germany

    Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers’ post-birth long-term sickness absence over a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-108 // 2014

    R&D Partnerships and Innovation Performance: Can There be too Much of a Good Thing?

    R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-107 // 2014

    Direct and Cross-Scheme Effects in a Research and Development Subsidy Program

    This study investigates the effects of an R&D subsidy scheme on participating firms’ net R&D investment. Making use of a specific policy design in Belgium that explicitly distinguishes between research and…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-106 // 2014

    Radical or Incremental: Where Does R&D Policy Hit?

    This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-105 // 2014

    Investigating the Influence of Firm Characteristics on the Ability to Exercise Market Power – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach with an Application to the Iron Ore Market

    This paper empirically analyzes the existence of market power in the global iron ore market during the period 1993-2012 using an innovative Stochastic Frontier Analysis approach introduced by Kumbhakar et al.…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-104 // 2014

    The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and Firm Statistics for Germany

    The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-103 // 2014

    China's R&D Subsidies – Allocation and Effectiveness

    This study investigates the allocation of China's R&D subsidies and its effectiveness in stimulating firms' own R&D investments for the population of Chinese listed firms throughout the time period 2001 to 2006.…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-102 // 2014

    An International Cohort Comparison of Size Effects on Job Growth

    The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect…

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