1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-001 // 2018

    Public Procurement as Policy Instrument for Innovation

    Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    What’s the Price of Academic Consulting? Effects of Public and Private Sector Consulting on Academic Research

    Academic consulting is an important and effective means of knowledge transfer between the public and private sectors. It offers opportunities for research application but also raises concerns over potentially…

  3. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2018

    January 2018

    • Economic Outlook for China Set to Remain Largely Stable
    • 46 analysts participated in the January survey, which was conducted during the period 2 till 11 January 2018
  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Ownership Concentration and Innovativeness of Corporate Ventures

    Corporate venture investments are an established means for incumbent firms to access radical innovation. Drawing from a behavioural agency framework, we distinguish two mechanisms that govern the relationship…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Analyzing and Predicting Micro-Location Patterns of Software Firms

    While the effects of non-geographic aggregation on statistical inference are well studied in economics, research on the effects of geographic aggregation on regression analysis is rather scarce. This…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?

    How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002 and 2004), the…

  7. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2018

    Januar 2018

    • Weiterhin gute Aussichten für die deutsche Konjunktur im ersten Halbjahr 2018
    • Eurogebiet: Beurteilung der Konjunkturlage fällt erneut positiv aus
    • USA: Konjunktureinschätzung verbessert sich deutlich
    • Japan:…