1. ZEW Annual Report // 2015

    2014

    The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) stood its ground in national and international competition in 2014 with a total revenue of about EUR 20 million. The institute successfully reinforced its…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

    Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation…

  3. ZEW Newsletter // 2015

    2015-07

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • TAPES 2016 - ZEW/NBER Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar
    3. Staff
      • Guests at ZEW
      • Visiting Researchers
    4. Press Releases
    5. Recent Publications
      IN ENGLISH
      • Financial Market Report Switzerland
      • Financial…
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-051 // 2015

    Measuring Patent Quality in International Comparison – Index Development and Application to China

    We develop an index that compares the quality of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications by considering citations generated by International Search Reports (ISRs). In its most restrictive variation, i.e.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-050 // 2015

    Flying the Nest: How the Home Department Shapes Researchers' Career Paths

    This paper studies the importance of the socialization environment – nest – for the career destinations of early career researchers. In a sample of research groups in the fields of science and engineering at…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-048 // 2015

    Facility- and Service-based Competition and Investment in Fixed Broadband Networks: Lessons from a Decade of Access Regulations in the European Union Member States

    This paper employs firm-level panel data of 57 incumbent and entrant firms for 23 European countries in the decade from 2003 to 2012. We examine the impact of service- and facility-based competition on…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-047 // 2015

    Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labor Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany

    This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro…