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.

ZEW Discussion Papers
ZEW Discussion Papers
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ZEW Expertises & Research Reports
External Research Publications
  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-078 // 2015

    Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?

    Economic restructuring provides an opportunity for socially valuable product and process innovation. However, it's not clear whether displaced workers engage in socially useful activities as well. This question…

    Digital Economy
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-077 // 2015

    How Are Work-Related Characteristics Linked to Sickness Absence and Presenteeism? – Theory and Data

    This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-076 // 2015

    The Impact of Administrative Transaction Costs in the EU Emissions Trading System

    This paper empirically investigates the impact of transaction costs for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of emissions on companies regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in Germany.…

    Environmental and Climate Economics
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-075 // 2015

    Zum Stromkonsum von Haushalten in Grundsicherung: Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland

    Environmental and Climate Economics
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-074 // 2015

    Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel

    This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists,the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-073 // 2015

    Konzeptionelle Lehren aus der ersten Evaluationsrunde der Branchenmindestlöhne in Deutschland

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-072 // 2015

    Electricity Market Integration and the Impact of Unilateral Policy Reforms

    The harmonization and integration of separate national energy markets to an interconnected internal European market is a top priority of the European Commission. However, as energy policy largely remains subject…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-071 // 2015

    The Perils of Debt Deflation in the Euro Area – A Multi Regime Model

    Academic research and policy makers in the Euro area are currently concerned with the threat of debt deflation and secular stagnation in Europe. Empirical evidence seems to suggest that secular stagnation and…

    Pensions and Sustainable Financial...
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-070 // 2015

    Steuerpolitik in Deutschland – eine Halbzeitbilanz der aktuellen Legislaturperiode im Kontext europäischer Entwicklungen

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

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