1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-052 // 2017

    Incumbents’ Responses to Innovative Entrants – A Multi-Country Dynamic Analysis

    The influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is considered important for technological change. We analyze this influence for the global transition towards alternative technology vehicles (ATVs). Our…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-051 // 2017

    Guilt by Association: How Scientific Misconduct Harms Prior Collaborators

    Recent highly publicized cases of scientific misconduct have raised concerns about its consequences for academic careers. Previous and anecdotal evidence suggests that these reach far beyond the fraudulent…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-050 // 2017

    The Internet Effects on Sex Crime and Murder – Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

    This paper studies the effects of the introduction of a new mass medium on criminal activity in Germany. The paper asks the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Fuel for inequality: Distributional effects of environmental reforms on private transport

    This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. In…