1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2024

    Targeted bidders in government tenders

    A set-aside promotes a more equitable procurement process by restricting participation in government tenders to small or disadvantaged businesses. Yet its micro-effects on tender outcomes (competition and…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2024

    Procuring Survival

    We investigate the impact of public procurement on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we construct a large-scale dataset of firms—covering balance-sheet, income-statement, and administrative…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2024

    How Do Investors Value the Publication of Tax Information? Evidence from the European Public Country-by-Country Reporting

    We examine the costs associated with public disclosure, as opposed to confidential reporting, of tax country-by-country reporting (CbCR) information. Our study addresses a critical knowledge gap, considering the…

  4. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2024

    2. Quartal 2024

    • Stabiles Konjunkturklima in der Informationswirtschaft
    • Unternehmen halten am Homeoffice fest
  5. ZEW policy brief No. 24-09 // 2024

    Mehr finanzielle Spielräume, mehr öffentliche Investitionen?

    Forderungen nach Lockerungen der Schuldenbremse haben seit dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum zweiten Nachtragshaushalt 2021 Auftrieb erhalten. Oft wird argumentiert, dass die Schuldenbremse wichtige…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Die Zukunftsquote: Ein neuer Kompass für den Bundeshaushalt

    In diesem Beitrag beschreiben Albrecht Bohne, Friedrich Heinemann, Thomas Niebel und Michael Thöne das Konzept und die Implementierung einer „Zukunftsquote“ als einen möglichen neuen Kompass zur Bewertung von…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-027 // 2024

    Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? The Unequal Health Effects of Digitalization

    This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked…

  8. ZEW Monthly // 2024

    06/2024 — Public Finances

    Rarely has a federal budget been subject to so much controversy as that for the coming year. Since the Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling in November 2023 on the federal government’s supplementary budget,…

  9. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Testing for differences in survey-based density expectations: A compositional data approach

    We propose to treat survey-based density expectations as compositional data when testing either for heterogeneity in density forecasts across different groups of agents or for changes over time. Monte Carlo…