1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-020 // 2011

    Politicians' Opinions on Rivals in the Competition for Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Reference Points Near a Border

    Many studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) fiscal policies concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single region. These works usually disregard possible extra-regional effects.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-019 // 2011

    Gender Differences in Business Success of German Start-up Firms

    Many studies found that women-owned firms underperform when comparing performance indicators at an aggregate level. The performance gap might be attributed to gender differences in personal and firm…

  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2011

    April 2011

    • Konjunkturerwartungen bleiben stabil
    • EZB: Leitzinserhöhung immer wahrscheinlicher
    • USA: Japanische Katastrophe könnte bremsen
    • Japan: Katastrophe hinterlässt erste Spuren
    • Großbritannien: Situationseinschätzung…
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-018 // 2011

    Fiscal Policy and Growth with Complementarities and Constraints on Government

    Governments are subject to a number of constraints that affect their ability to set fiscal policy optimally. This paper considers two. Firstly, governments are inevitably imperfectly informed about the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-017 // 2011

    Effects of Age at School Entry (ASE) on the Development of Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Psychometric Data

    In this paper, we examine how school enrollment at a relatively younger or older age in relation to age-based cut-off dates for school entry affects the development of non-cognitive skills. Specifically, we…