Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2021

    Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

    Representation of women and minorities in a “selectorate”—the group that chooses an organization's leaders—is a key mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-028 // 2021

    Decoding China’s COVID-19 ‘Virus Exceptionalism’: Community-based Digital Contact Tracing in Wuhan

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, comprehensive, accurate, and timely digital contact tracing serves as a decisive measure in curbing viral transmission. Such a strategy integrates corporate innovation, government…

  3. ZEW Documentation No. 21-01 // 2021

    Dokumentation zur Innovationserhebung 2020

    Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) erhebt seit 1993 jährlich die Innovationsaktivitäten der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Erhebung findet im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2021

    Price Matching Guarantees and Collusion: Theory and Evidence from Germany

    On May 27, 2015, the Shell network of gas stations in Germany introduced a Price Matching Guarantee (PMG) available to its card-carrying members. In the ensuing weeks, a series of attempts at tacit collusion…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-021 // 2021

    Disambiguation by Namesake Risk Assessment

    Most bibliometric databases only provide names as the handle to their careers leading to the issue of namesakes. We introduce a universal method to assess the risk of linking documents of different individuals…