1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-041 // 2015

    German Public Finances Through the Financial Crisis

    The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was hit by a very strong shock which was relatively concentrated in the exporting,…

  2. Expertises // 2015

    Report on the dynamic efficiency of trade-related climate policy instruments

    This report analyses how anti-carbon leakage measures, i.e. Border Carbon Adjustments (BCA), would interact with domestic and foreign firms’ R&D investment. The results of a multi- country multi-sector…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    Capital Shortfalls in SSM Banks: How much progress has been made?

    On 26 October 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of the comprehensive assessment that comprised both an asset quality review (AQR)as well as a stress test. Banks that have shown capital…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2015

    Bewertungskriterien von Fördersystemen aus ökonomischer Sicht

  5. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Excess information acquisition in auctions

    The acquisition of information is an important feature in most auctions where one’s exact private valuation is unknown ex-ante. We conducted the first experiment in testing a risk-neutral expected surplus…