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. 19-023 // 2019

    Net Neutrality Regulation: Much Ado About Nothing?

    The economics literature on Net Neutrality (NN) has been largely critical of NN regulation on the basis of theoretical findings that NN violations can be both welfare improving and welfare deteriorating,…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-022 // 2019

    Determinants of Work-Related Training: An Investigation of Observed and Unobserved Firm-, Job- and Worker-Heterogeneity

    One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-021 // 2019

    The Choice of Institutions to Solve Cooperation Problems: A Survey of Experimental Research

    A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners’ dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-020 // 2019

    Birthplace Diversity and Team Performance

    We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-019 // 2019

    Income Redistribution and Self-Selection of Immigrants

    We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-018 // 2019

    Search and Equilibrium Prices: Theory and Evidence from Retail Diesel

    We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-017 // 2019

    Measuring China’s Patent Quality: Development and Validation of ISR Indices

    Because China has become one of the largest applicants of PCT patents, it is of interest to compare the quality of Chinese and non-Chinese applications. We extend a quality index based on internationally…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-016 // 2019

    Employment and Performance Effects of Circular Economy Innovations

    Circular economy (CE) describes an economic concept that aims at saving resources by minimizing the use of material and energy over the entire life-cycle or products, including repair, reuse and recycling. CE…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-015 // 2019

    Working from Home: Heterogeneous Effects on Hours Worked and Wages

    Working from home (WfH) has become much more common since the early 2000s. We exploit the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1997 and 2014 to investigate how such a work arrangement affects labour market…

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