1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    EU Budget Reforms: Where Can Europe Really Add Value?

    The debate over the next EU budget is already heating up. In early May the European Commission will publish its proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the years 2021-2027. Agricultural…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Endogenous Worst-Case Beliefs in First-Price Auctions

    Bidding in first-price auctions crucially depends on the beliefs of the bidders. We analyze bidding behavior in a first-price auction in which the knowledge of the bidders about the distribution of the values…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Strategies Under Distributional and Strategic Uncertainty

    I investigate the decision problem which arises in a game of incomplete information under two different types of uncertainty - uncertainty about other players’ type distributions and about other players’…

  4. ZEW policy brief No. 18-01 // 2018

    Elections in Italy: Ten Facts and Ten Conclusions on Italy’s Debt Situation

    With the exception of Greece, Italy is the Eurozone country with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio (132 per cent). In absolute terms, the country accounts for almost one quarter of all government debt in the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-011 // 2018

    Bank Credit Supply and Firm Innovation

    We analyze the causal effect of the credit supply shock to banks induced by interbank market disruptions in the recent financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Ursachen von Stromsperren in Privathaushalten: Empirische Ergebnisse aus der Allgemeinen Sozialberatung

    This article investigates factors correlated with the suspension of electricity supply in German households because of utility arrears. Utility arrears and power cut-offs occur frequently in households which…

  7. ZEW Newsletter // 2018

    2018-02

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Eighth Edition of the Competition and Innovation Summer School (CISS)
    3. Personalia
      • Education at ZEW
      • Guests at ZEW
    4. Press Releases
    5. Recent Publications
      IN ENGLISH
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  8. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2018

    März 2018

    • Rückgang auf hohem Niveau – positiver Ausblick bleibt trotz sinkender Erwartungen bestehen
    • Eurozone: Erwartungen trüben sich leicht ein
    • USA: Konjunkturausblick bleibt weiterhin positiv
    • Japan: Konjunkturlage…
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-010 // 2018

    Incentive Regulation: Evidence from German Electricity Networks

    We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to estimate the impact of incentives on cost reduction. We show theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system…