1. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2007

    4. Quartal 2007

    Experten erwarten kaum dauerhafte Kundenverluste für die Schiene aufgrund des Bahnstreiks

    Mit einer dauerhaften Abwanderung einer grösseren Anzahl von Bahnkunden zu Lkw oder Binnenschiff aufgrund des Streiks der…

  2. ZEW Newsletter // 2007

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  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-082 // 2007

    Merger Control as Barrier to EU Banking Market Integration

    In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for "prudential reasons and formal errors". Following these events, the EU Commission brought actions…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-080 // 2007

    Latin versus European Power – A Tale of Two Market Reforms

    This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of competitive market structures for the electricity sector, as developed in the economics…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-079 // 2007

    Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

    This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade.…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-078 // 2007

    Inventors' Response to Firm Acquisitions

    Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the working environment of the inventive labor force of the acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-077 // 2007

    How to Limit Discrimination? Analyzing the Effects of Innovative Workplace Practices on Intra-Firm Gender Wage Gaps Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

    This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-076 // 2007

    What Explains the Spread Between the Euro Overnight Rate and the ECB's Policy Rate?

    In this paper we employ a time series econometric framework to explore the structural determinants of the spread between the euro overnight rate and the ECB's policy rate (EONIA spread) aiming to explain the…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-075 // 2007

    Mitarbeiteranreizsysteme und Innovationserfolg

    Wir diskutieren die Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Systems des betrieblichen Vorschlagswesens und anderer Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung des Innovationserfolgs. Im Anschluss wird die Wirkung des…

  10. Refereed Journal // 2007

    Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Reforms: Does the Representation of the Family Decision Process Matter? Evidence for Germany

    We compare results of a tax reform analysis obtained with the collective and unitary models of household behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a collective approach, using a compound procedure…