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. 20-005 // 2020

    Local Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation Persistence of Firms

    Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-004 // 2020

    Langfristige Wirkungen eines nicht abgeschlossenen Studiums auf individuelle Arbeitsmarktergebnisse und die allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit

    To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first study for Germany to assess the long-term impacts of studying without graduating on three labour market outcomes (working hours, wages, and occupational…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-003 // 2020

    The Digital Layer: How Innovative Firms Relate on the Web

    In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-002 // 2020

    Mitigating the Tradeoff Between Proportionality and Accountability in Electoral Systems: Evidence from the Italian Senate 1994 – 2006

    First-past-the-post elections in single-member districts make legislators more accountable to their district of election compared to proportional electoral systems. Accountability makes politicians more…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-001 // 2020

    Gender Norms and Income Misreporting Within Households

    We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-064 // 2019

    Competition and Privacy in Online Markets: Evidence from the Mobile App Industry

    Policy makers are increasingly concerned about the combination of market power and massive data collection in digital markets. This concern is fueled by the theoretical prediction that more market power causes…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-063 // 2019

    Web-Based Innovation Indicators – Which Firm Website Characteristics Relate to Firm-Level Innovation Activity?

    Web-based innovation indicators may provide new insights into firm-level innovation activities. However, little is known yet about the accuracy and relevance of web-based information for measuring innovation. In…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-062 // 2019

    Commitment in First-Price Auctions

    We study the role of commitment in a first-price auction environment. We devise a simple two-stage model in which bidders first submit an initial offer that the auctioneer can observe and then make a…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-061 // 2019

    How the Auction Design Influences Procurement Prices: An Experiment

    The targeted design of auctions has to take behavioral regularities into account. This paper explores whether procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept…

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