1. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Social Norms, Sanctions, and Conditional Entry in Markets with Externalities: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment

    In an artefactual field experiment with a large and heterogeneous non-student population sample, we test the implications of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real- …

  2. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Firm R&D Investment and Export Market Exposure

    We study differences in the returns to R&D investment between German manufacturing firms that sell in international markets and firms that only sell in the domestic market. Using firm-level data for five…

  3. ZEW expert brief No. 22-06 // 2022

    Working From Home After COVID-19: Firms Expect a Persistent and Intensive Shift

    This study exploits fine-grained survey data to elicit firms’ long-term expectations about the use of working from home (WFH) arrangements after the COVID-19 pandemic. From December 2021 until January 2022, the…

  4. Non-Refereed Journal // 2022

    Die Rolle der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge für die Einkünfte im Alter – aktuelle Evidenz und Datengrundlagen

    Despite the socio-political importance of occupational pensions since the pension reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, the incomplete evidence base, lack of transparency and lack of data have been regularly…

  5. 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…
  6. 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
  7. 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 …