ZEW Discussion Papers

Recent research in economics reveals a substantial impact of personality traits or noncognitive skills on outcomes related to educational and labor market success. A virtue of these noncognitive skills compared…

Based on a dataset with 1,417 family and 1,195 non-family businesses in Germany, we find that family businesses rely more heavily than other enterprises on short term credit in order to finance long term…

In recent decades, changes in parents’ attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise their development have greatly affected patterns of time allocation among both working and…

The political discussion on energy efficiency is focusing more and more on the building sector due to its susceptibility to potential market failures. In Germany, for example, about 30% of the total final energy…

Research on management and organization science has identified inter-departmental innovation collaboration as a mechanism to facilitate corporate innovation performance. Inter-departmental collaboration…

Increased globalisation and competition caused more and more firms to relocate part of their R&D activities to foreign countries. This recent trend towards the internationalisation of R&D is motivated by…

Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with significant implications for labour market outcomes. However, there is still a research gap on the relationship between gregariousness, interactive jobs…

In the short run, outsourcing is usually associated with the resulting job losses in the contract granting firm, since in-house staff is generally laid-off or transferred to the outsourcing provider. However,…

Free competition on markets is a major concern in competition policy. The cartelization of firms is a threat to free competition. One major instrument antitrust authorities have and use increasingly frequently…