1. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Carbon Price and Wind Power Support in Denmark

    This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-010 // 2016

    Settlements and Appeals in the European Commission's Cartel Cases: An Empirical Assessment

    The introduction of the European Union (EU) Settlement Procedure in 2008 aimed at promoting the procedural efficiency of cartel investigations by the European Commission (EC). We use a data set consisting of 579…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-009 // 2016

    Strategic Capacity Withholding Through Failures in the German-Austrian Electricity Market

    In electricity day-ahead markets organized as uniform price auction, a small reduction in supply in times of high demand can cause substantial increases in price. We use a unique data set of failures of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-008 // 2016

    Book-Tax Conformity and Reporting Behavior - A Quasi-experiment

    We examine how a comprehensive change in book-tax conformity affects firms' reporting behavior. To this end, we exploit a Reform Act as a quasi-natural experiment which implied a decrease in book-tax conformity…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-007 // 2016

    Taxing Away M&A: The Effect of Corporate Capital Gains Taxes on Acquisition Activity

    Taxing capital gains is an important obstacle to the efficient allocation of resources because it imposes a transaction cost on the vendor which locks in appreciated assets by raising the vendor's reservation…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-006 // 2016

    Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes - Evidence from a Field Experiment

    The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Using time-stamped survey responses to measure expectations at a daily frequency

    This article addresses one of the drawbacks of survey-based measures of expectations, the fact that updates are relatively infrequent, due to the monthly or quarterly frequency of survey waves. To obtain a more…

  8. ZEW-PwC-China Economic Barometer // 2016

    First Quarter 2016

    • Economic Outlook Slightly Brighter but Remains Negative Overall
    • Growth Supported by Private Consumption and Investment
    • New Five-Year Plan: Expected to Bring Improvements for German Companies too; Continuing Urgend…