1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-036 // 2021

    Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Innovation: Evidence From Firm-Level Data

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-035 // 2021

    What’s Behind Multiple Institutional Affiliations in Academia?

    Multiple institutional affiliations occur when an academic belongs to more than one organisation. Recent research shows an increase in multiple affiliations, but evidence on roles and motivations is mainly…

  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2021

    Mai 2021

    • Konjunktureuphorie etwas geringer
    • Euroraum: Erwartungen gehen etwas zurück
    • USA: Lageeinschätzung auf Rekordhoch seit Pandemiebeginn
    • China: Konjunkturausblick sehr positiv
    • Sonderfrage: Kräftige Erholung der…
  4. Non-Refereed Journal // 2021

    Wahrnehmung des Klimawandels in Deutschland: Eine Längsschnittbefragung privater Haushalte

    This article presents selected results of a survey of more than 6 000 private households from spring 2020 on the relevance of climate change and its potential impacts and draws comparisons with four thematically…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Predicting Innovative Firms using Web Mining and Deep Learning

    Evidence-based STI (science, technology, and innovation) policy making requires accurate indicators of innovation in order to promote economic growth. However, traditional indicators from patents and…

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2021

    Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

    Representation of women and minorities in a “selectorate”—the group that chooses an organization's leaders—is a key mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-033 // 2021

    What Are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence From Conjoint Experiments With Procurement Officials

    A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision-making is still largely seen as a black box. We provide novel insights into the preferences…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-032 // 2021

    Regional Redistribution of Mineral Resource Wealth in Africa

    We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere…