1. Financial Market Report CEE // 2014

    December 2014

    • Economic Sentiments for the CEE Region Fluctuate
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Current Situation Deteriorates
    • Croatia, Hungary, and Romania: Stable Economic Outlook
    • Turkey: Economic Expectations on Highest…
  2. KfW/ZEW CO2 Panel // 2014

    2014 - Manufacturing Industry Edition

    Main Results of the Survey:

    • Energy Efficiency Assessments Are a Prerequisite for Investments in Energy Efficiency
    • Companies Expect Increasing Energy Prices and their Most Important Sales Markets to Be Global
    • Half…
  3. ZEWnews English edition // 2014

    11/12 - 2014

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-109 // 2014

    Maternity Leave and Mothers' Long-Term Sickness Absence - Evidence from Germany

    Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers’ post-birth long-term sickness absence over a…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-108 // 2014

    R&D Partnerships and Innovation Performance: Can There be too Much of a Good Thing?

    R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-107 // 2014

    Direct and Cross-Scheme Effects in a Research and Development Subsidy Program

    This study investigates the effects of an R&D subsidy scheme on participating firms’ net R&D investment. Making use of a specific policy design in Belgium that explicitly distinguishes between research and…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-106 // 2014

    Radical or Incremental: Where Does R&D Policy Hit?

    This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-105 // 2014

    Investigating the Influence of Firm Characteristics on the Ability to Exercise Market Power – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach with an Application to the Iron Ore Market

    This paper empirically analyzes the existence of market power in the global iron ore market during the period 1993-2012 using an innovative Stochastic Frontier Analysis approach introduced by Kumbhakar et al.…