1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2019

    Euro Area Reform Preferences of Central and Eastern European Economic Experts

    This study explores the positions of economic experts from Central and Eastern European (CEE) Member States in the euro reform debate. Given the dominant voices from French and German politicians and acacemics…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-056 // 2019

    Obvious Manipulations in Cake-Cutting

    In cake-cutting, strategy-proofness is a very costly requirement in terms of fairness: for n = 2 it implies a dictatorial allocation, whereas for n ≥ 3 it requires that one agent receives no cake. We show that a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-055 // 2019

    Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

    Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesize the growing literature that evaluates nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that simple reminders increase the…

  4. ZEW policy brief No. 19-08 // 2019

    Klimaabkommen von Paris: Die vereinbarten dynamischen Anreize wirken kontraproduktiv

    Hopes in the 2015 Paris Agreement are high that global warming will be limited to the two-degree target agreed on by the various signatory states. To this end, substantial climate protection contributions are…

  5. German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report) // 2019

    Fourth Quarter 2019

    • When Will the Real Estate Financing Market Recover?
    • Mixed Picture Emerging From the Assessments of the Real Estate Financing Market
    • All That Glitters Is Not Gold
    • Global Trends: Residential Property Most Affected
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-054 // 2019

    Citizens’ Trade-offs in State Merger Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

    Voters dealing with jurisdictional merger decisions face a trade-off between economies of scale and preference costs. Larger jurisdictions may offer cost advantages, yet the downside is that policies in larger…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-053 // 2019

    Collusion Through Market Sharing Agreements: Evidence from Quebec‘s Road Paving Market

    I study a case of market sharing agreements to provide evidence of coordination between colluding firms on the degree to which they compete against each other (henceforth referred to as head-to-head competition)…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-052 // 2019

    Vote Buying in the US Congress

    We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-051 // 2019

    Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia

    In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive…

  10. ZEW Newsletter // 2019

    2019-11

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • International Conference on The German Labor Market in a Globalized World
      • Workshop on Environmental Economics Analyses Using Official Firm Data for Germany (AFiD)
    3. Personalia