1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-86 // 2005

    Hold-up Problems with Respect to R&D Investment and Licensing in Environmental Regulation

    We explore the design of self-financing tax-subsidy schemes to solve hold-up problems in environmental regulation. The announcement of the tax rate seems to be preferable to solve hold-up problems with respect…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-83 // 2005

    The Dynamics of Overconfidence: Evidence from Stock Market Forecasters

    As a group, market forecasters are egregiously overconfident. In conformity to the dynamic model of overconfidence of Gervais and Odean (2001), successful forecasters become more overconfident. What’s more, more…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-80 // 2005

    Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives

    The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-79 // 2005

    Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

    In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the evolution of average income and when this is not the case. In the former case, an increase…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-78 // 2005

    Is a Newspaper's Companion Website a Competing Outlet Channel for the Print Version?

    This paper uses Granger non{causality tests to analyze if channel competition exists between the companion websites of 93 German newspapers observed between I/1998 and II/2005. It provides econometric evidence…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-77 // 2005

    Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

    Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2005

    Comparing the Fed and the ECB Using Taylor-Type Rules

    This paper analyses whether Taylor-type policy rules can be used to describe monetary policy in the U.S., Germany, and the euro area between 1992-2004, and if the interest rate setting in one currency area…

  8. Non-Refereed Journal // 2005

    Strategische Technologieintegration im M&A-Prozess

    The contribution analyses the integration of acquired technologies during an M&A.

  9. Non-Refereed Journal // 2005

    The Effective Tax Burden of Companies in Europe

    Analysis of the effective tax burden of companies in Europe based on an approach introduced by Devereux/Griffith. International comparison of effective tax burden of the analysed locations from 1996 to 2005.

  10. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2005

    Capital Markets and Demography

  11. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2005

    Entwicklung von Führungskompetenz im gewerblichen Bereich