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

    2014 - Erwartungen an Wirtschaft und Politik

  2. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2014

    October 2014

    • Negative Economic Outlook for First Time in Long While
    • Interest-Rate Expectations Reflect the Economic Outlook
    • Inflation Apparently Not an Issue
    • US Dollar Expected to Appreciate
    • Bullish Stock-Market Expectations…
  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2014

    Oktober 2014

    • Abwärtstrend des ZEW-Index deutlich gebremst
    • EZB: Leitzinssenkung lässt auch Zinserwartung sinken
    • USA: Wirtschaftslage verbessert sich weiter
    • Japan: Lageeinschätzung verschlechtert sich erneut
    • Großbritannien:…
  4. Financial Market Report CEE // 2014

    September 2014

    • Expectations for the CEE Region Deteriorate
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Stable Economic Sentiments
    • Croatia, Hungary, and Romania: Economic Outlook Deteriorates
    • Turkey: Economic Expectations Deteriorate
    • Spe…
  5. KfW/ZEW CO2 Panel // 2014

    2014 – Carbon Edition

    Main Results of the Survey:

    • At the Beginning of the Third Trading Period Persistently Low CO2 Prices Barely Lead to CO2 Abatement Measures
    • The Price of Emission Allowances Needs to Be About EUR 30 per tCO2, i.e.…
  6. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2014

    2. Quartal 2014

    Moderate Zunahme bei Transportmengen und Preisen erwartet

    Die deutschen Transportmärkte präsentieren sich derzeit recht robust. Die Aussichten für ein weiteres Wachstum der Transportmengen sind gut, allerdings…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-065 // 2014

    Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

    In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-064 // 2014

    Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

    This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634…