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. 07-071 // 2007

    The Effects of Multinationals' Profit Shifting Activities on Real Investments

    This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals' real investments in a high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysis shows that tax rates abroad impact the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-070 // 2007

    The Phillips Curve and NAIRU Revisited: New Estimates for Germany

    This paper provides new estimates of a time–varying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by German unification based on the Kalman Filter and on a partially linear model as two…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-069 // 2007

    Exports and Productivity - Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries

    We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-068 // 2007

    Projecting the Medium-Term: Outcomes and Errors for GDP Growth

    The focus of this paper is the evaluation of a very popular method for potential output estimation and medium-term forecasting— the production function approach—in terms of predictive performance. For this…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-067 // 2007

    Price Discovery for Cross-Listed Securities from Emerging Eastern European Countries

    This study provides empirical evidence verifying the theory of price discovery for Eastern European enterprises based on their cross-listing on Western European exchanges. Despite the fact that the crosslisting…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-066 // 2007

    Firm Acquisitions and Technology Strategy: Corporate versus Private Equity Investors

    Over the last few years, worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have increased sharply both in terms of value and volume. This development has not only been driven by corporate acquirers but also to an…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-065 // 2007

    Hydrogen in Passenger Transport: A Macroeconomic Analysis

    Hydrogen is often seen as a promising future energy carrier given the major reliance of today's transport sector on finite fossil fuels. This working paper assesses the macroeconomic effects of introducing…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-064 // 2007

    Climate Policy and Ancillary Benefits - A Survey and Integration into the Modelling of International Negotiations on Climate Change

    Currently informal and formal international negotiations on climate change take place in an intensive way since the Kyoto Protocol expires already in 2012. A post-Kyoto regulation to combat global warming is…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 07-063 // 2007

    Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation

    This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy.…

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