1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-054 // 2024

    Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

    Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesize the growing literature that evaluates nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that simple reminders increase the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-052 // 2024

    Early Life Conditions, Time Preferences, and Savings

    This study examines how early-life exposure to food scarcity influences individuals’ long-term time preferences and savings behavior. To this end, we analyze hand-collected historical data on livestock…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-051 // 2024

    Mandated Data-sharing in Hybrid Marketplaces

    We study a hybrid marketplace where a vertically integrated platform competes with a seller in a horizontally differentiated downstream market. The platform has a data advantage and can price discriminate…

  4. ZEW Monthly // 2024

    07/2024 – Industrial Dynamics

    The interplay between business start-ups and closures is a key driver of economic transformation. In the face of geopolitical uncertainties and challenges like digitalisation and sustainability goals, examining…

  5. ZEW policy brief No. 24-11 // 2024

    Wirksame Förderung von Spitzenforschung braucht eine kritische Masse

    Durch eine abnehmende Bedeutung im internationalen Technologie- und Wissenschaftswettbewerb ist das langfristige wirtschaftliche Wachstum von Deutschland bedroht. Die deutsche Exzellenzförderung von…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-050 // 2024

    On the Role of EU Cohesion Policy for Climate Policy

    Cohesion policy in the European Union (EU) has been widely accepted as a tool to advance the catch-up process, i.e., helping member countries with lower GDP per capita to grow faster economically in order to…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2024

    School Choice with Independent versus Consolidated Districts

    This paper studies the welfare effects of school district consolidation. Using incomplete rank-ordered lists (ROLs) submitted for admission to the Hungarian secondary school system, we estimate complete ROLs…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-049 // 2024

    Product Differentiation and Quality in Production Function Estimation

    Production functions provide a mapping from the firms’ input quantity and productivity to output quantity. This mapping only generates unbiased estimates if input and output quality variation within and between…

  9. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2024

    Juli 2024

    • Konjunkturerwartungen sinken zum ersten Mal seit einem Jahr
    • Eurozone: Leichte Erholung bei weiterhin pessimistischem Ausblick
    • USA: Sinkende Inflationserwartungen befeuern Erwartung baldiger Zinssenkungen
    • Ch…
  10. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-048 // 2024

    Constraining and Enabling Factors of a Successful Regional Policy in Europe

    Recent papers show that the impact of Cohesion Policy is not uniform in space but larger, smaller or insignificant depending on the regions. These outcomes mostly depend on the characteristics of each territory…

  11. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-047 // 2024

    Who Is in the Driver’s Seat? Markups, Markdowns, and Profit Sharing in the Car Industry

    I develop a general framework for markup and markdown estimation that allows for profit sharing along value chains without making assumptions on conduct between vertically related firms. I derive the conditions…