1. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2021

    März 2021

    • Ausblick verbessert sich erneut
    • Eurozone: Starker Anstieg der Konjunkturerwartungen
    • US-Wirtschaft im Aufwind
    • Japan: Konjunkturerwartungen deutlich verbessert
    • Großbritannien: Erwartungen verbessern sich zum…
  2. Expertises // 2021

    Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2020

    The aim of this study is to determine effective tax rates for the 27 EU countries as well as UK, Switzerland, Norway, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, USA, Canada and Japan. The calculation of domestic and…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-017 // 2021

    Social Norms and Market Behavior – Evidence From a Large Population Sample

    We test the importance of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real-world externalities in a large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-016 // 2021

    Finanzwissen und Finanzbildung in Deutschland – Was wissen wir eigentlich?

    In an international comparison, Germans have a relatively high level of financial knowledge. However, this does not imply that financial knowledge is universally distributed. The share of respondents, who are…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-015 // 2021

    Fearless Woman: Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation

    Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to disproportionately…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-014 // 2021

    Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?

    In the framework of the Paris Agreement implementation, financial transfers remain a major point of negotiation for addressing equity concerns raised by the ambitious climate objectives. In complement to the…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-013 // 2021

    Quantifying the OECD BEPS Indicators – an Update to BEPS Action 11

    In its 2015 Final Report on “Measuring and Monitoring BEPS, Action 11”, the OECD introduced six indicators to quantify and evaluate base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) activity over time. In this study, we…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-012 // 2021

    Using Machine Learning for Measuring Democracy: An Update

    We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger (2016, European Journal of…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-011 // 2021

    International Student Exchange and Academic Performance

    International student exchange has become an important part of university-level studies and the EU plans to increase it significantly. We analyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-010 // 2021

    Incentives and Intertemporal Behavioral Spillovers: A Two-Period Experiment on Charitable Giving

    We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment…

  11. ZEW-Innovationserhebung // 2021

    2020

    Innovation in Germany: Is the German Economy Still on Course for Innovation?

    Innovation expenditure by German companies rose again in 2019, reaching an all-time high of 176.9 billion euros. However, the increase…