1. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2020

    January 2020

    • Economic Expectations for China Stagnate: Slightly Negative Outlook for 2020: CEP Indicator Stands at Minus 8.7 Points
    • 46 analysts participated in the January survey, which was conducted during the period 13…
  2. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2020

    Februar 2020

    • Die Trendwende ist da, aber weiterhin nur geringes Wachstum
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen hellen sich auf
    • USA: Experten blicken optimistischer in die Zukunft
    • Japan: Konjunkturausblick verbessert sich zu…
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-003 // 2020

    The Digital Layer: How Innovative Firms Relate on the Web

    In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-002 // 2020

    Mitigating the Tradeoff Between Proportionality and Accountability in Electoral Systems: Evidence from the Italian Senate 1994 – 2006

    First-past-the-post elections in single-member districts make legislators more accountable to their district of election compared to proportional electoral systems. Accountability makes politicians more…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-001 // 2020

    Gender Norms and Income Misreporting Within Households

    We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Low-Powered vs High-Powered Incentives: Evidence From German Electricity Networks

    We propose a difference-in-differences approach to estimating the impact of incentives on cost reduction in the context of German electricity networks. When subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism,…

  7. Expertises // 2020

    Länderindex Familienunternehmen - Standortfaktoren in Emerging Markets

    The country index Emerging Markets focuses on the characteristics and risks of emerging markets as investment locations for family enterprises. This alignment makes it a perfect complement to the existing…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Multi-unit assignment under dichotomous preferences

    I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable…

  9. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2020

    Januar 2020

    • Trendwende bleibt noch außer Sicht
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturoptimismus kehrt zurück
    • USA: Konjunkturerwartungen hellen sich weiter auf
    • Japan: Konjunkturausblick bleibt verhalten
    • Großbritannien: Aufwärtstrend bei…
  10. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Numeracy and on-the-job performance: Evidence from loan officers

    We examine how the numeracy level of employees influences their on-the-job performance. Based on an administrative dataset of a retail bank we relate the performance of loan officers in a standardized math test…