1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-21 // 2001

    Energy Taxes and Employment: A Do-it-yourself Simulation Model

    Our paper deals with the welfare and employment effects of green tax reforms. In the first part we develop a flexible, interactive simulation model which is accessible under http://brw.zew.de. Users can specify…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-16 // 2001

    Public Deficits and Borrowing Costs: The Missing Half of Market Discipline

    EMU driven interest rate convergence has led to a significant reduction of borrowing costs for some European governments in the second half of the nineties. The paper deals with the possible consequences for…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-14 // 2001

    Cooperation in International Environmental Negotiations due to a Preference for Equity

    This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner’s dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-13 // 2001

    FIML Estimation of a Bivariate Probit Selection Rule - An Application on Firm Growth and Subsidisation

    This study applies a full information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimator of the sample selection model with bivariate selection rule for the investigation of the impact of subsidised firm foundation from…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-12 // 2001

    New Technologies and the Demand for Medium Qualified Labour in Germany

    The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-11 // 2001

    Fiscal Externalities in Local Tax Competition: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of German Jurisdictions

    This paper is concerned with fiscal externalities arising from local taxation of a mobile factor. Using a panel of more 1100 local jurisdictions it provides empirical evidence on how the local tax rate as well…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-10 // 2001

    The Effects of Public R&D Subsidies on Firms' Innovation Activities: The Case of Eastern Germany

    This study analyses the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern Germany. This is the first study which considers the effects of public R&D programmes in a…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-09 // 2001

    Moving In and Out of Financial Distress: Evidence for Newly Founded Service Sector Firms

    The determinants of transitions between different states of financial distress are analyzed using two versions of Markov chain models: a multinomial logit model without random effects and a multinomial logit…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-08 // 2001

    The Employment Impact of Cleaner Production on the Firm Level: Empirical Evidence from a Survey in Five European Countries

    This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-07 // 2001

    Environmental Taxation and Structural Change in an Open Economy - A CGE Analysis with Imperfect Competition and Free Entry

    The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number…