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. 11-020 // 2011

    Politicians' Opinions on Rivals in the Competition for Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Reference Points Near a Border

    Many studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) fiscal policies concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single region. These works usually disregard possible extra-regional effects.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-019 // 2011

    Gender Differences in Business Success of German Start-up Firms

    Many studies found that women-owned firms underperform when comparing performance indicators at an aggregate level. The performance gap might be attributed to gender differences in personal and firm…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-018 // 2011

    Fiscal Policy and Growth with Complementarities and Constraints on Government

    Governments are subject to a number of constraints that affect their ability to set fiscal policy optimally. This paper considers two. Firstly, governments are inevitably imperfectly informed about the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-017 // 2011

    Effects of Age at School Entry (ASE) on the Development of Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Psychometric Data

    In this paper, we examine how school enrollment at a relatively younger or older age in relation to age-based cut-off dates for school entry affects the development of non-cognitive skills. Specifically, we…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-016 // 2011

    The Macroeconomic Effects of Large Exchange Rate Appreciations

    The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical backbone to the debate about the macroeconomic effects of large upward exchange rate adjustments of tightly managed or pegged exchange rate regimes. Using a…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-015 // 2011

    Clustering Life Trajectories - A New Divisive Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Discrete-valued Discrete Time Series

    The goal of clustering is to partition the objects (here: persons) into groups which ideally should be homogenous and well-separated (i.e. low within-group and high between-groups heterogeneity). In the context…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-014 // 2011

    Do Residential Property Companies Systematically Adjust Their Capital Structure? The Case of Germany

    Our paper analyzes the corporate financing behavior of German residential property companies. The German residential property industry is characterized by a predominance of nonlisted companies with different…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-013 // 2011

    Combined Stochastic and Rule-based Approach to Improve Regression Models with Mismeasured Monotonic Covariates Without Side Information

    The education variable in the IAB datasets suffers from problems like missing and misclassified values. The data problems do not occur randomly, but are highly associated with other variables from the dataset.…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-012 // 2011

    International Diversification with Securitized Real Estate and the Veiling Glare from Currency Risk

    Do investments in international securitized real estate markets make a statistically significant contribution to an internationally diversified mixed-asset portfolio, and does currency risk exposure have an…

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