1. ZEW Newsletter // 2021

    2021-02

    IN ENGLISH

    IN GERMAN

    1. News
    2. Personnel
      • Awards
    3. Press Releases
    4. Recent Publications
      • ZEWnews English Edition
      • ZEW Discussion Papers
      • ZEW Expertises/Research Reports
      • ZEW-Kurzexpertisen (ZEW…
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-020 // 2021

    How Does the Evolution of R&D Tax Incentives Schemes Impact Their Effectiveness? Evidence From a Meta-Analysis

    A growing interest in R&D tax incentive policies has given rise to a large number of evaluations, which provide contrasting results about their effectiveness. Our meta- analysis aims to explain the heterogeneity…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-019 // 2021

    Reporting Behavior and Transparency in European Banks’ Country-by-Country Reports

    The public CbCR requirement for EU financial institutions leaves leeway to the reporting firms as regards the calculating and presentation of the data. Based on a sample of CbCRs published by EU-headquartered…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-018 // 2021

    The COVID-19 Insolvency Gap: First-Round Effects of Policy Responses on SMEs

    COVID-19 placed a special role to fiscal policy in rescuing companies short of liquidity from insolvency. In the first months of the crisis, SMEs as the backbone of Europe’s real economy benefited from large and…

  5. 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…
  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. 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…