1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-055 // 2021

    The Future of the European Fiscal Union: Survey Results From Members of National Parliaments in France, Italy and Germany

    Using data from a unique survey of members of parliaments in France, Germany and Italy in 2018, we estimate the effects of three dimensions on EU and euro area fiscal reform preferences: nationality, political…

  2. ZEW Newsletter // 2021

    2021-07

    IN ENGLISH

    IN GERMAN

    1. News
    2. Calls for Papers
      • 13th Real Estate Markets and Capital Markets (ReCapNet) Conference
      • MIFE Inaugural Conference and Early Career Workshop
    3. Personalia
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  3. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Global Distribution Patterns of Carbapenemase-Encoding Bacteria in a New Light: Clues on a Role for Ethnicity

    Antibiotic resistance represents a major global concern. The rapid spread of opportunistically pathogenic carbapenemase-encoding bacteria (CEB) requires clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers to swiftly find…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence on the Role of Trade in Europe

    Digital technologies displace labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop an empirically tractable task-based framework to estimate the aggregate…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-054 // 2021

    Cost Dynamics of Clean Energy Technologies

    The pace of the global decarbonization process is widely believed to hinge on the rate of cost improvements for clean energy technologies, in particular renewable power and energy storage. This paper adopts the…

  6. ZEW expert brief No. 21-06 // 2021

    The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Innovation

    In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures…