1. ZEW Newsletter // 2020

    2020-01

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Ninth Mannheim Energy Conference
      • Workshop on Taxation and Informality
      • ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies
    3. Personalia
      • Awards
      • Gu…
  2. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Different counselors, many options: Career guidance and career plans in secondary schools

    Career guidance assists students with the school-to-work transition. Based on a survey conducted in secondary schools in Germany, we analyze career guidance activities and how these affect career plans. The…

  3. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2020

    January 2020

    • Economic Expectations for China Stagnate: Slightly Negative Outlook for 2020: CEP Indicator Stands at Minus 8.7 Points
    • 46 analysts participated in the January survey, which was conducted during the period 13…
  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2020

    Februar 2020

    • Die Trendwende ist da, aber weiterhin nur geringes Wachstum
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen hellen sich auf
    • USA: Experten blicken optimistischer in die Zukunft
    • Japan: Konjunkturausblick verbessert sich zu…
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-003 // 2020

    The Digital Layer: How Innovative Firms Relate on the Web

    In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-002 // 2020

    Mitigating the Tradeoff Between Proportionality and Accountability in Electoral Systems: Evidence from the Italian Senate 1994 – 2006

    First-past-the-post elections in single-member districts make legislators more accountable to their district of election compared to proportional electoral systems. Accountability makes politicians more…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-001 // 2020

    Gender Norms and Income Misreporting Within Households

    We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Low-Powered vs High-Powered Incentives: Evidence From German Electricity Networks

    We propose a difference-in-differences approach to estimating the impact of incentives on cost reduction in the context of German electricity networks. When subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism,…

  9. Expertises // 2020

    Länderindex Familienunternehmen - Standortfaktoren in Emerging Markets

    The country index Emerging Markets focuses on the characteristics and risks of emerging markets as investment locations for family enterprises. This alignment makes it a perfect complement to the existing…

  10. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Multi-unit assignment under dichotomous preferences

    I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable…