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. 15-003 // 2015

    The Impact of Alternative Public Policies on the Deployment of New Communications Infrastructure – A Survey

    Our survey reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on all alternative policies to promote the deployment of new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-002 // 2015

    Candidate Screening for the Recruitment of Critical Research and Development Workers – A Report and Preliminary Results with Evidence from Experimental Data from German High-Tech Firms

    The report focuses on résumé-based screening strategies for the recruitment of highly qualified research and development (R&D) workers (critical R&D workers) in high-tech firms. We investigate which kinds of…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-001 // 2015

    Individual Determinants of Inventor Productivity: Report and Preliminary Results with Evidence from Linked Human Capital and Patent Data

    This report offers new insights into the drivers of inventor productivity at the individual level. It includes well-known drivers, such as inventor age and education, and controls for inventor team size, and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-133 // 2014

    When the Minimum Wage Bites Back: Quantile Treatment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany

    In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-132 // 2014

    Spillovers in Networks of User Generated Content: Pseudo-Experimental Evidence on Wikipedia

    I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-131 // 2014

    Money and Privacy – Android Market Evidence

    We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-130 // 2014

    Overqualification of Graduates: Assessing the Role of Family Background

    Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-129 // 2014

    Susceptibility and Influence in Social Media Word-of-Mouth

    Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game…

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