1. ZEW Newsletter // 2021

    2021-04

    IN ENGLISH

    IN GERMAN

    1. News
    2. Press Releases
    3. Recent Publications
      • ZEW policy brief
      • ZEW expert brief
      • ZEW Discussion Paper
      • ZEWnews German Edition
      • ZEW policy briefs
      • ZEW-Finanzmarktreport (ZEW…
  2. Refereed Journal // 2021

    How do different compensation schemes and loss experience affect insurance decisions? Experimental evidence from two independent and heterogeneous samples

    Natural hazard insurance is advocated as an important means of risk management, however, private insurance demand often remains below critical levels. Prior loss experience and the design of governmental relief…

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2021

    Market Success: The Quest for the Objectives and Success Factors of Markets

  4. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Signalling in Auctions: Experimental Evidence

    We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed- bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Incomplete Contracts in Multi-Period Procurement

    We analyze the problem of a buyer who purchases a long-term project from one of several suppliers. A changing state of the world influences the costs of the suppliers. We distinguish between complete…

  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2021

    Germany

  7. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Competing risks regression with dependent multiple spells: Monte Carlo evidence and an application to maternity leave

    Copulas are a convenient tool for modelling dependencies in competing risks models with multiple spells. This paper introduces several practical extensions to the nested copula model and focuses on the choice of…

  8. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2021

    April 2021

    • Expectations Slightly Improved
    • 27 analysts participated in the April survey, which was conducted during the period 6 till 14 April 2021
  9. Discussion and Working Paper // 2021

    The fight against financial crime: How global banks' de-risking affects trade and the local economy

    This paper investigates the importance of correspondent banking for trade and firm performance in emerging Europe. We exploit the unexpected "structural break" in the U.S. regulator’s enforcement of financial…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-037 // 2021

    Signalling in Auctions: Experimental Evidence

    We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information…

  11. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-036 // 2021

    Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Innovation: Evidence From Firm-Level Data

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration…