1. M&A Report // 2018

    November/December 2018

    • German M&A Index Stabilises Thanks to Increasing Number of Transactions
    • US Banks Pull Ahead of EU in Banking Sector
    • US Tech Companies Devour Smaller Rivals
    • Sluggish M&A Activity for Family Businesses
  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Strategic Delegation and International Permit Markets: Why Linking May Fail

    We analyse a delegation problem in the context of international climate policy. Principals in two countries first decide whether to merge domestic emission permit markets to an international market, then…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Climate Policy under Factor Mobility: A (Differentiated) Case for Capital Taxation

    In a general equilibrium model with two periods and a finite fossil resource, I analyze the non-cooperative climate policies of symmetric countries that are in competition for mobile factors of production…

  4. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2018

    3. Quartal 2018

    • Gute Lage und optimistische Aussichten
    • E-Recruitment weiter auf dem Vormarsch
  5. ZEW Newsletter // 2018

    2018-10

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Seventh Annual Conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus MaCCI
    3. Personalia
      • Appointments
      • Guests at ZEW
    4. Press Releases
    5. Recent Publications
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  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-045 // 2018

    Can the Private Sector Ensure the Public Interest? Evidence from Federal Procurement

    We empirically investigate the effect of procurement oversight on contract outcomes. In particular, we stress a distinction between public and private oversight: the former is a set of bureaucratic checks…

  7. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2018

    October 2018

    • Economic Expectations for China Rise, but Uncertainty Remains
    • 26 analysts participated in the October survey, which was conducted during the period 2 till 17 October 2018