1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2018

    Freie Berufe

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Tax refunds and income manipulation: evidence from the EITC

    Welfare programs are important in terms of reducing poverty, although they create incentives for recipients to maximize their income by either reducing their labor supply or manipulating their taxable income. In…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe

    A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to estimate the…

  4. German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report) // 2018

    Third Quarter 2018

    • Brighter Sentiment Relating to the Current Financing Situation
    • Assessment of the Financing Situation Remains Positive at the Same Level as Last Year
    • Bricks-and-mortar Retail is Under Pressure
    • Noticeable Slight…
  5. ZEW Newsletter // 2018

    2018-09

    1. News
    2. Personalia
      • Guests at ZEW
    3. Press Releases
    4. Recent Publications
      IN ENGLISH
      • German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI) Report
      • ZEW Discussion Papers
      • Expertises/Research Reports
      IN…
  6. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2018

    September 2018

    • Economic Outlook for China Nosedives
    • 28 analysts participated in the September survey, which was conducted during the period 5 till 20 September 2018
  7. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Social Integration in Two-Sided Matching Markets

    When several two-sided matching markets merge into one, it is inevitable that some agents will become worse off if the matching mechanism used is stable. I formalize this observation by defining the…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes: Evidence from Historical Constitutions

    This paper studies the reduced-form effects of constitutional-level balanced budget rules (BBRs) on scal outcomes. Using historical data for a large set of countries dating back to the nineteenth …

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-033 // 2018

    Web Mining of Firm Websites: A Framework for Web Scraping and a Pilot Study for Germany

    Existing approaches to model innovation ecosystems have been mostly restricted to qualitative and small-scale levels or, when relying on traditional innovation indicators such as patents and questionnaire-based…