1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    Is soccer good for you? The motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed

    We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984 - 2010. Exploiting the random…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2014

    Staatsverschuldung

  3. Expertises // 2014

    Context, Skills and Social Progress: Evidence from Germany

    Abstract: This study provides life-cycle evidence on the relationship between childhood investments (contexts), cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and life outcomes (social progress). From a policy perspective,…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-008 // 2014

    Time is Money – How Much Money is Time? Interest and Inflation in Competition Law Actions for Damages

    Public and private action against cartels is an internationally recognized cornerstone of antitrust enforcement. Effective private enforcement requires that cartel victims can receive (at least) full…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-007 // 2014

    Chinese Pension Fund Investment Efficiency - Evidence from CNCSSF Stock Holdings

    China’s pension system is facing a large gap of more than one trillion RMB. The investment efficiency of the social security fund therefore receives widespread attention in academic circles. We collected data of…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-006 // 2014

    Changing Forces of Gravity: How the Crisis Affected International Banking

    The global financial crisis has brought a rather unprecedented period of expansion of banks’ international financial assets and liabilities to an end. In response to the crisis, banks have decreased their…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-005 // 2014

    Dynamic Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Industry. The Case of Rare Earth Elements

    This paper investigates China's capability to exert power on Rare Earth markets until 2020. A dynamic partial equilibrium model allowing for a disaggregated representation of the mining sector and endogenous…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-002 // 2014

    Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control

    We study fair and effcient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-001 // 2014

    Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979 – 2007

    We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the…