1. Refereed Journal // 2015

    The Impact of Alternative Public Policies on the Deployment of New Communications Infrastructure – A Survey

    This survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on alternative policies to promote new fiber-based communications infrastructures addresses (i) various kinds of ex ante sector-specific regulations, (ii)…

  2. ZEW Newsletter // 2015

    2015-03

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • SEEK Workshop "Labour Market Policy Evaluations Using Job Search and Matching Models"
      • Summer School "Labour Market Research - Theory, Empirical Analysis, Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
      • Fifth…
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-021 // 2015

    How Creative Are You? – An Experimental Study on Self-Selection in a Competitive Incentive Scheme for Creative Performance

    Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-020 // 2015

    Escape Routes from Sovereign Default Risk in the Euro Area

    The recent financial and sovereign debt crises around the world have sparked a growing literature on models and empirical estimates of defaultable debt. Frequently households and firms come under default threat,…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-019 // 2015

    Dynamic Properties of Energy Affordability Measures

    Measures of affordability are applied in practice, e.g., to assess the affordability of energy services, water or housing. They can be interpreted as measures of deprivation in a specific domain of consumption.…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

    Recent theoretical research suggests that financing sub-national governments’ expenditure out of own revenue sources is linked to more responsible budgeting, because the financial implications of spending…

  7. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2015

    April 2015

    • Konjunkturerwartungen weiter auf hohem Niveau
    • EZB: Inflationserwartungen stark gestiegen
    • USA: Einschätzung der Wirtschaftslage verschlechtert sich
    • Japan: Dritter Anstieg des Lageindikators in Folge
    • Großbritannien:…
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-018 // 2015

    Good Enough! Are Socially Responsible Companies the More Successful Environmental Innovators?

    The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so…