1. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia

    In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-040 // 2019

    Incomplete Contracts in Dynamic Procurement

    We analyze the problem of a buyer who purchases a long-term project from one of several suppliers. A changing state of the world influences the costs of the suppliers. Complete contracts conditioning on all…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-039 // 2019

    Inter-Charity Competition Under Spatial Differentiation: Sorting, Crowding, and Spillovers

    We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-038 // 2019

    Effects of R&D Subsidies on Regional Economic Dynamics: Evidence from Chinese Provinces

    We investigate the impact of research and development (R&D) subsidies on R&D inputs of large- and medium-sized firms and on additional innovation and economic activities in Chinese provinces. A panel vector…

  5. Expertises // 2019

    Towards Better Monitoring of Innovation Strengths, Regional Specialisation and Industrial Modernisation in the EU

    This study on the monitoring of innovation strengths, regional specialisation and industrial modernisation in the European Union has two main aims. The first is to verify whether the existing indicators and data…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-037 // 2019

    Tax Law and the Transfer of Start-up Losses: A European Overview and Categorization

    Most of the European Member States employ anti-loss trafficking rules. They aim to prevent the acquisition of mere corporate shells with high tax loss carryforwards for the tax asset to be utilized in profitable…

  7. ZEW Newsletter // 2019

    2019-09

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Eighth Annual Conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus MaCCI
    3. Personalia
      • Appointments
      • Guests at ZEW
    4. Press Releases
    5. Recent Publications
      IN ENGLISH
      • German Real…
  8. Discussion and Working Paper // 2019

    Buyers' Role in Innovation Procurement

    What is the impact of buyers on the performance of innovation procurement? In which phase of the procurement process are buyers most crucial and why? We address these questions by exploiting a novel…

  9. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2019

    September 2019

    • Economic Expectations for China Continue to Fall: CEP Indicator Falls to a New Reading of Minus 17.7 Points
    • 31 analysts participated in the September survey, which was conducted during the period 4 till 18…