1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-060 // 2022

    Congestion Management Games in Electricity Markets

    This paper proposes a game-theoretic model to analyze the strategic behavior of inc-dec gaming in market-based congestion management (redispatch). We extend existing models by considering incomplete information…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-059 // 2022

    What Drives the Relationship Between Digitalization and Industrial Energy Demand? Exploring Firm-Level Heterogeneity

    The ongoing digital transformation has raised hopes for ICT-based climate protection within manufacturing industries, such as dematerialized products and energy efficiency gains. However, ICT also consume energy…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-058 // 2022

    Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. On the case of Denmark, the country with the…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2022

    Procuring Survival

    We investigate the impact of public procurement spending on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we construct a large-scale dataset on firms---covering balance-sheet, income-statement, and…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2022

    Elites and Health Infrastructure Improvements in Industrializing Regimes

    We collect information about more than 5,000 Prussian politicians, digitize administrative data on the provision of health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers’ movements to…

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2022

    Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications

    We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources geographically within countries. Using enterprise surveys from low- and middle-income…

  7. Discussion and Working Paper // 2022

    Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications

    We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources geographically within countries. Using enterprise surveys from low- and middle-income…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Uncertain Product Availability in Search Markets

    In many markets buyers are poorly informed about which firms sell the product (product availability) and prices, and therefore have to spend time to obtain this information. In contrast, sellers typically have a…

  9. ZEW expert brief No. 22-08 // 2022

    The Other Government: State-Owned Enterprises in Germany and Their Implications for the Core Public Sector

    This paper aims to raise the awareness and knowledge about state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Germany – a sizable but often ignored part of the overall public sector which the authors of this ZEW expert brief,…

  10. ZEW policy brief No. 22-07 // 2022

    Significant Costs, Limited Benefits: A Global Minimum Tax in Germany

    In order to curb tax-motivated profit shifting and limit international tax competition, 137 signatory countries to the Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) agreed in 2021 to introduce a…