ZEW Discussion Papers

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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. 19-041 // 2019

    The Real Effects of Bank Distress: Evidence from Bank Bailouts in Germany

    How does bank distress impact their customers’ probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-040 // 2019

    Incomplete Contracts in Dynamic Procurement

    We analyze the problem of a buyer who purchases a long-term project from one of several suppliers. A changing state of the world influences the costs of the suppliers. Complete contracts conditioning on all…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-039 // 2019

    Inter-Charity Competition Under Spatial Differentiation: Sorting, Crowding, and Spillovers

    We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-038 // 2019

    Effects of R&D Subsidies on Regional Economic Dynamics: Evidence from Chinese Provinces

    We investigate the impact of research and development (R&D) subsidies on R&D inputs of large- and medium-sized firms and on additional innovation and economic activities in Chinese provinces. A panel vector…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-037 // 2019

    Tax Law and the Transfer of Start-up Losses: A European Overview and Categorization

    Most of the European Member States employ anti-loss trafficking rules. They aim to prevent the acquisition of mere corporate shells with high tax loss carryforwards for the tax asset to be utilized in profitable…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-036 // 2019

    A Deprivation-Based Assessment of Energy Poverty: Conceptual Problems and Application to Germany

    In this paper, subjective and objective aspects of deprivation are used to derive an aggregated multidimensional measure of energy poverty. The proposed measure is based on deprivation with a direct relation to…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-035 // 2019

    Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws

    Innovation depends on the incentives to create new ideas as well as the visibility of and access to existing ones. Using exogenous variation from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, we show that stronger trade…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-034 // 2019

    Restrictions of Fixed Term Employment Contracts: Evidence from a German Reform

    This paper examines the impact of legal restrictions on fixed-term contracts on employment, wages and the careers of labour market entrants. Specifically, I analyse a 2001 German reform that made it more…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-033 // 2019

    Environmental Innovation and Firm Profitability – An Analysis with Respect to Firm Size

    This paper investigates the effect of environmental innovations on firm profitability with respect to differences between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim…

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