1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-061 // 2013

    Do Trademarks Diminish the Substitutability of Products in Innovative Knowledge-Intensive Services?

    Trademarks are treated negligent in the scholarly innovation discourse. In contrast to other intellectual property rights, trademarks are not intended traditionally to protect immediately valuable information.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-060 // 2013

    The Value of Disclosing IPR to Open Standard Setting Organizations

    Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Standards define a set of technical specifications which…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-059 // 2013

    Accounting for Uncertainty in Willingness to Pay for Environmental Benefits

    In environmental economics there is a growing literature on the valuation of environmental externalities using consumer willingness to pay, which is a relevant input for welfare analysis of projects targeting…

  4. ZEW Newsletter // 2013

    2013-08

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Workshop on "The Impact of Human Resource Management - Empirical Analyses of Firms and Employees" (November 22-23, 2013)
    3. Staff
      • Appointments
      • Visiting Researchers
    4. Press Releases
    5. Recent…
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-058 // 2013

    Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

    Management scholars predominantly advocate that startup teams should consist of members with different rather than similar backgrounds. Such heterogeneous team members are supposed to bring in a greater variety…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-057 // 2013

    Regional Age Structure, Human Capital and Innovation - Is Demographic Ageing Increasing Regional Disparities?

    Demographic ageing has increasingly become one of the most pressing challenges that industrialized economies are facing in the 21st century. In particular, this trend has raised the concern that an ageing…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-056 // 2013

    What Active Labour Market Programmes Work for Immigrants in Europe? A Meta-Analysis of the Evaluation Literature

    Immigrants are a disadvantaged group on European labour markets. In most countries, they are over-represented in unemployment and under-represented in employment. To integrate immigrants into the labour market,…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-055 // 2013

    The Effect of Regulatory Scrutiny Asymmetric Cost Pass-through in Power Wholesale and its End

    This paper examines the effect of an investigation report by the competition authority on the pass-through of EU emission allowance (EUA) prices to German electricity wholesale prices.

    Since January 2005, the…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-054 // 2013

    Do First Mover Advantages for Producers of Energy Efficient Appliances Exist? The Case of Refrigerators

    Energy efficiency regulation is an important driver for innovations in environmental technologies. Improvements of energy efficiency do not only contribute to reach environmental policy targets, they can be…