1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    The Long-Term Impact of Matching and Rebate Subsidies when Public Goods are Impure: Field Experimental Evidence from the Carbon Offsetting Market

    In this paper, we investigate both short- and long-term impacts of financial stimuli on public goods provision when contributions are tied to individual harm-related behavior. We conduct a large-scaled field…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-104 // 2014

    The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and Firm Statistics for Germany

    The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-103 // 2014

    China's R&D Subsidies – Allocation and Effectiveness

    This study investigates the allocation of China's R&D subsidies and its effectiveness in stimulating firms' own R&D investments for the population of Chinese listed firms throughout the time period 2001 to 2006.…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    Overlapping Political Budget Cycles in the Legislative and the Executive

    We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-102 // 2014

    An International Cohort Comparison of Size Effects on Job Growth

    The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2014

    An Economic Perspective on Double Tax Treaties with(in) Developing Economies

    There are about 2,600 double tax treaties in the world, some 500 among industrialized economies, approximately 800 among developing economies and about 1,300 between industrialized and developing economies.…

  7. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2014

    3. Quartal 2014

    Stimmungslage trübt sich deutlich ein

    Die Transportwirtschaft in Deutschland muss sich im kommenden halben Jahr auf geringere Transportmengen und stagnierende beziehungsweise bei einigen Transportzweigen und…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-101 // 2014

    Reassessing Competition Concerns in Electronic Communications Markets

    Central features of today’s electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision…

  9. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    The Long-Term Impact of Matching and Rebate Subsidies when Public Goods are Impure: Field Experimental Evidence from the Carbon Offsetting Market

    In this paper, we investigate both short- and long-term impacts of financial stimuli on public goods provision when contributions are tied to individual harm-related behavior. We conduct a large-scaled field…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-100 // 2014

    The Effects of Corporate and Country Sustainability Characteristics on the Cost of Debt: An International Investigation

    We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into 470 loan agreements signed between 2005 and 2012 with borrowers based on 28 different…