Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-018 // 2020

    R&D Investment Under Financing Constraints

    This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-012 // 2020

    The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textual Information For Startup Performance Prediction

    Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of Danish…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-010 // 2020

    Which Design Works? A Meta-Regression Analysis of the Impacts of R&D Tax Incentives

    A growing interest in R&D tax incentives as a way to sustain research and innovation efforts has given rise to a large number of evaluations. The absence of consensus in the literature about their impact on R&D…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Unbundling, Regulation and Pricing: Evidence from Electricity Distribution

    Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries and has been implemented in many jurisdictions. The idea of separating the network, as the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-009 // 2020

    Labor Shortage and Innovation

    Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about…