ZEW Discussion Papers

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Mit diesen Beiträgen, die überwiegend in Englisch verfasst sind, beteiligen sich die Forscher/innen des ZEW an wissenschaftlichen Fachdebatten. Die Publikationen enthalten vorläufige Beiträge, die zur Veröffentlichung in Fachzeitschriften vorgesehen sind. Die Discussion Papers können ab 1.1.1998 als pdf-Datei abgerufen werden. Sie richten sich an nationale und internationale Zielgruppen.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-101 // 2014

    Reassessing Competition Concerns in Electronic Communications Markets

    Central features of today’s electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-100 // 2014

    The Effects of Corporate and Country Sustainability Characteristics on the Cost of Debt: An International Investigation

    We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into 470 loan agreements signed between 2005 and 2012 with borrowers based on 28 different…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-099 // 2014

    Overlapping Political Budget Cycles in the Legislative and the Executive

    We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-098 // 2014

    The Long-Term Impact of Matching and Rebate Subsidies when Public Goods are Impure: Field Experimental Evidence from the Carbon Offsetting Market

    In this paper, we investigate both short- and long-term impacts of financial stimuli on public goods provision when contributions are tied to individual harm-related behavior. We conduct a large-scaled field…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-097 // 2014

    Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition

    We manipulate workers’ perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-096 // 2014

    A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

    We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system.…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-095 // 2014

    An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data

    We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-094 // 2014

    University Research Alliances, Absorptive Capacity, and the Contribution of Startups to Employment Growth

    This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-093 // 2014

    Information Ambiguity and Firm Value

    A recent theoretical model by Epstein and Schneider (2008) predicts that a firm’s assets will be undervalued by the market if the information surrounding these assets is ambiguous. The model further predicts…

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