1. German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report) // 2022

    Second Quarter 2022

    • Assessments of current situation and outlook for financing deteriorate significantly
    • Pessimism affects all use types
    • Significant deterioration in sentiment in the refinancing markets
    • Further deterioration…
  2. ZEW Newsletter // 2022

    2022-07

    1. Aktuell
    2. Call for Papers
    3. Personalia
      • Berufungen/Ernennungen
      • Aufsichtsrat
    4. Presse
    5. Neue Publikationen
      • ZEW policy brief
      • ZEW-Finanzmarktreport
      • ZEW Discussion Paper
      • Gutachten/Forschungsberichte
  3. ZEW policy brief No. 22-03 // 2022

    The Centralization of Natural Gas Procurement in the EU: An Economic Perspective

    In this policy brief, we review the main trade-offs associated with joint procurement, or procurement “centralization”, as identified by procurement scholars. We then focus on the specific case of natural …

  4. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Using emissions trading schemes to reduce heterogeneous distortionary taxes: The case of recycling carbon auction revenues to support renewable energy

    We examine the economic impacts of using the revenues from environmental taxation to reduce a pre-existing distortionary tax in a multisector economy where the environmental regulation and pre-existing…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-030 // 2022

    Targeted Bidders in Government Tenders

    A set-aside restricts participation in procurement contests to targeted firms. Despite being widely used, its effects on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-029 // 2022

    College Openings and Local Economic Development

    We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-028 // 2022

    Better Us Later Than Me Now – Regulatee-Size and Time-Inconsistency as Determinants of Demand for Environmental Policies

    To adequately design and implement effective environmental policies, it is paramount for policymakers to understand preferences for regulatory instruments as well as their individual level determinants. In this…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-027 // 2022

    Climate Change Mitigation: How Effective Is Green Quantitative Easing?

    We develop a two sector incomplete markets integrated assessment model to analyze the effectiveness of green quantitative easing (QE) in complementing fiscal policies for climate change mitigation. We model…