ZEW Discussion Papers

Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Standards define a set of technical specifications which…

In environmental economics there is a growing literature on the valuation of environmental externalities using consumer willingness to pay, which is a relevant input for welfare analysis of projects targeting…

Management scholars predominantly advocate that startup teams should consist of members with different rather than similar backgrounds. Such heterogeneous team members are supposed to bring in a greater variety…

Demographic ageing has increasingly become one of the most pressing challenges that industrialized economies are facing in the 21st century. In particular, this trend has raised the concern that an ageing…

Immigrants are a disadvantaged group on European labour markets. In most countries, they are over-represented in unemployment and under-represented in employment. To integrate immigrants into the labour market,…

This paper examines the effect of an investigation report by the competition authority on the pass-through of EU emission allowance (EUA) prices to German electricity wholesale prices.

Since January 2005, the…

Energy efficiency regulation is an important driver for innovations in environmental technologies. Improvements of energy efficiency do not only contribute to reach environmental policy targets, they can be…

In many countries, apprenticeship training plays a major role for school leavers to enter the labour market. Despite the importance of the apprenticeship degree, dropout of apprenticeship training is frequent:…

Energy efficiency improvements, i.e. a more prudent use of scarce and polluting resources while simultaneously maintaining a certain level of output, are considered one of the most promising measures to meet…