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. 20-032 // 2020

    What Happens when Separate and Unequal School Districts Merge?

    We study the welfare effects of school district consolidation, i.e. the integration of disjoint school districts into a centralised clearinghouse. We show theoretically that, in the worst-case scenario, district…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-031 // 2020

    Trade Liberalization and SO2 Emissions: Firm-Level Evidence from China’s WTO Entry

    Is trade liberalization contributing to cleaner production amongst manufacturing firms? Theoretical predictions and empirical evidences are mixed. This study utilizes China’s dual trade regime and China’s…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-030 // 2020

    A Global Decline in Research Productivity? Evidence from China and Germany

    In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-029 // 2020

    Hiring New Key Inventors to Improve Firms’ Post-M&A Inventive Output

    Although merger and acquisitions (M&As) are acknowledged as an important means to access innovative assets and know-how, firms’ inventive output often declines in the post-M&A period. Financial, managerial and…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-028 // 2020

    Austerity and Distributional Policy

    What are the effects of austerity on distributional policy? We exploit the autonomy of Italian municipalities in setting non-linear income taxes and the exogenous introduction of a fiscal rule to show that…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-027 // 2020

    The Incidence of VAT Evasion

    Who benefits from the evasion of value added taxes (VAT)? Using a reform that enforced VAT on previously non-compliant large retailers in Armenia, we estimate a onethird passthrough of the tax burden on prices.…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-026 // 2020

    Beyond Monetary Barriers to Electric Vehicle Adoption: Evidence From Observed Usage of Private and Shared Cars

    We use car-level micro data to provide empirical evidence on the usage of conventional and electric vehicles (EVs) in private and car sharing fleets in Germany. We shed light on both monetary and non-monetary…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-025 // 2020

    Exploring the Puzzle of Human Reproduction: Register Data Based Evidence from France and Germany

    Birth rates differ strongly across European states, despite the deep economic har-monisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale ad-ministrative data from France and Germany to…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-024 // 2020

    Long-Term Effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870): From Male Scarcity to Intimate Partner Violence

    This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The identification of these causal effects relies on a novel historical dataset from which I exploit…

Contact for orders

Kerstin Heres

Kerstin Heres

Information and Knowledge Management, Sales Email kerstin.heres@zew.de Phone +49 (0)621 1235-130
To the profile