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. 15-076 // 2015

    The Impact of Administrative Transaction Costs in the EU Emissions Trading System

    This paper empirically investigates the impact of transaction costs for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of emissions on companies regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in Germany.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-074 // 2015

    Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel

    This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists,the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-072 // 2015

    Electricity Market Integration and the Impact of Unilateral Policy Reforms

    The harmonization and integration of separate national energy markets to an interconnected internal European market is a top priority of the European Commission. However, as energy policy largely remains subject…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-071 // 2015

    The Perils of Debt Deflation in the Euro Area – A Multi Regime Model

    Academic research and policy makers in the Euro area are currently concerned with the threat of debt deflation and secular stagnation in Europe. Empirical evidence seems to suggest that secular stagnation and…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-069 // 2015

    The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Investments in Innovative Firms

    This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-068 // 2015

    How Can a Country 'Graduate' from Procyclical Fiscal Policy? Evidence from China

    In this study, we analyze the cyclicality of fiscal policies in China during the period 1978-2013. We find that the cyclicality of local government spending in China significantly affects the cyclicality of…

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