ZEW Discussion Papers

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…

Export is an important factor for growth and welfare for small, open economies. Since R&D and innovation are also key factors of growth for an industrialized economy, it is interesting to analyze the…

The paper provides new evidence on the factors that explain stock returns on the emerging markets. It focuses on the largest and most developed of the Central and Eastern European markets, the Polish stock…

In most Western industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. If the productivity contributions of old workers are low, dealing with increasing shares of old employees could be decisive for the…

Industrial Ecology is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field of research, analysing the interaction between industrial activity and nature. Within this field, a multitude of instruments has been developed.…

Technologically motivated firm acquisitions often fail in the sense that post-merger innovation performance declines. One reason has been identified as a temporary shift of managerial attention towards the firm…

It is widely agreed in the literature that environmental innovation is not only determined by market pull and technology push factors but also depends on regulatory incentives. There is an ongoing debate on how…