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. 07-016 // 2007

    Double Standards in Educational Standards - Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

    A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-017 // 2007

    Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP

    Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten des Mikrozensus weist darauf hin, dass die durch die Bildungsreformen intendierte…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-015 // 2007

    Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

    In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-014 // 2007

    Seniority and Job Stability: A Quantile Regression Approach Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

    Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or human capital theory or dual labor market approaches. These models may, however, apply to…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-013 // 2007

    The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios

    This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-012 // 2007

    Stale Information, Shocks and Volatility

    We propose a new approach to measuring the effect of unobservable private information or beliefs on volatility. Using high-frequency intraday data, we estimate the volatility effect of a well identified shock on…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-011 // 2007

    Exploring the Relationship Between Scientist Human Capital and Firm Performance: The Case of Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurs in the SBIR Program

    Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-009 // 2007

    Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in East Germany

    Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-010 // 2007

    Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers

    The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and…

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