ZEW Discussion Papers

Almost all western industrialized countries have introduced some measures for pollution abatement that are supposed to promote health. Our analysis focuses on the impact of pollution exposure on infant health,…

The market for R&D is subject to market failure which leads to an underprovision of R&D from a social point of view. This gives rise for governmental intervention in the market for R&D. For decades, the…

Training programs are an important tool of active labor market policy in Germany as in many other countries. There exist different types of training programs, but also important heterogeneities within a given…

Following the proposal of the World Bank in the end of the 1990s, a number of Central European countries have extended their pay-as-you-go pension systems by a capital-market-based element in the form of…

Given the substantial consolidation pressure in tax dependent government budgets, voluntary contributions play an increasing role in the financing of activities related to welfare, culture or education. There is…

This paper investigates two central questions. Are there long-term effects of regulation on innovation? Does the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the…

Technological change is an important determinant of long-run productivity which is essential for securing competitiveness both at the firm-level and for the economy as a whole. Public authorities expect that…

During the last two decades, the issue of international cooperation in climate protection has received increasing attention in economic research. The main focus has been on the underlying economic incentives for…

The management of global environmental resources, such as the global climate, requires cooperation between countries. In practice, countries willing to abate the emission of a pollutant that damages a shared…