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.

ZEW Discussion Papers
ZEW Discussion Papers
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  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-087 // 2015

    Mobile Information and Communication Technologies, Flexible Work Organization and Labor Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence

    Mobile information and communication technologies (ICT) have started to diffuse rapidly in the business sector. This study tests for the complementarity between the use of mobile ICT and organizational practices…

    Digital Economy
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-086 // 2015

    ICT and Global Sourcing - Evidence for German Manufacturing and Service Firms

    This paper analyses the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms' probability of global sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small…

    Digital Economy
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-085 // 2015

    Student Employment: Advantage or Handicap for Academic Achievement?

    We estimate the effects of student employment on academic performance. Performance is measured by grades achieved one and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-084 // 2015

    Inequality of Income Acquisition: The Role of Childhood Circumstances

    Many studies have estimated the effect of circumstances on income acquisition. Perhaps surprisingly, the fraction of inequality attributable to circumstances is usually quite small - in the advanced democracies,…

    Inequality and Public Policy
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-083 // 2015

    Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm’s Financial Strength

    This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affcts its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-082 // 2015

    Tax Competition in Europe - Europe in Competition with Other World Regions?

    Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax competition as one reason for this decline in corporate tax levels. However, none of these…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-081 // 2015

    Let's Stay in Touch - Evidence on the Role of Social Learning in Local Tax Interactions

    This paper exploits detailed information on local political and socioeconomic networks and a reform of local fiscal equalization in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) to identify the role of learning in local tax rate…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-080 // 2015

    The Power of Individual-Level Drivers of Inventive Performance

    Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-079 // 2015

    Second-Best Analysis of European Energy Policy: Is One Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush?

    This paper studies policy instruments that correct insufficient learning-by-doing (LbD) and research and development (R&D) of renewable electricity technologies and insufficient investments in energy efficiency…

    Environmental and Climate Economics

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