This paper examines the effect of an investigation report by the competition authority on the pass-through of EU emission allowance (EUA) prices to German electricity wholesale prices.

Since January 2005, the…

Energy efficiency regulation is an important driver for innovations in environmental technologies. Improvements of energy efficiency do not only contribute to reach environmental policy targets, they can be…

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• The German ICT Sector is Highly Active Abroad
• The Employment Effects of Innovation Differ Between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms
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In many countries, apprenticeship training plays a major role for school leavers to enter the labour market. Despite the importance of the apprenticeship degree, dropout of apprenticeship training is frequent:…

Energy efficiency improvements, i.e. a more prudent use of scarce and polluting resources while simultaneously maintaining a certain level of output, are considered one of the most promising measures to meet…

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• Special Questions: Valuation of Asset Classes

Informational asymmetries abound in anonymous markets, such as those opening in the internet almost every day. In particular, before trading takes place, the typical buyer does not know whether her anonymous…

In 2012, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim increased its total revenues by 2.3 million euros to 20.5 million euros. It was in particular the growth of third-party funding which…