1. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2016

    May 2016

    • International Financial Market Data - Assessments and Expectations
    • No Further Interest Rate Cuts Expected in Europe
    • Stable Exchange Rate Expectations
    • Inflation Expectations Remain Positive
    • Stock-Market Expectations…
  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2016

    Innovation, Skills and Job Creation

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2016

    How to Reap Economic Benefits from Humanitarian Migration: The Case of Germany

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-029 // 2016

    Non-Sequential Search, Competition and Price Dispersion in Retail Electricity

    We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany’s electricity retail. We utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-028 // 2016

    Changing Fortunes During Economic Transition – Low-Wage Persistence Before and After German Unification

    This paper studies whether the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy offers new perspectives for those who, in economic terms, were relatively deprived under the old regime. Previous empirical…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-027 // 2016

    Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Fiscal Policy? A Meta-Regression-Analysis

    We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules. Based on 30 studies published in the last decade, we offer a consensus estimate with respect to the level of…

  7. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2016

    April 2016

    • Leichte Verbesserung der Konjunkturerwartungen
    • Eurozone: Anstieg der Inflationsrate erwartet
    • USA: Konjunkturerwartungen wieder im positiven Bereich
    • Japan: Konjunkturlage gleitet weiter ins Minus
    • Großbritannien:…