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. 15-022 // 2015

    Mobility Across Firms and Occupations Among Graduates from Apprenticeship

    Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-021 // 2015

    How Creative Are You? – An Experimental Study on Self-Selection in a Competitive Incentive Scheme for Creative Performance

    Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-020 // 2015

    Escape Routes from Sovereign Default Risk in the Euro Area

    The recent financial and sovereign debt crises around the world have sparked a growing literature on models and empirical estimates of defaultable debt. Frequently households and firms come under default threat,…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-019 // 2015

    Dynamic Properties of Energy Affordability Measures

    Measures of affordability are applied in practice, e.g., to assess the affordability of energy services, water or housing. They can be interpreted as measures of deprivation in a specific domain of consumption.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-018 // 2015

    Good Enough! Are Socially Responsible Companies the More Successful Environmental Innovators?

    The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-017 // 2015

    Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

    We provide new evidence on the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates. We study month-to-month fluctuations in the growth rate of M1 in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies from 1975 to…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-016 // 2015

    Women on the Board and Executive Duration – Evidence for European Listed Firms

    The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-015 // 2015

    Does Exchange of Information Between Tax Authorities Influence Multinationals' Use of Tax Havens?

    Since the mid-1990s, countries offering tax systems that facilitate international tax avoidance and evasion have been facing growing political pressure to comply with the internationally agreed standards of…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-014 // 2015

    Taxing Investments in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Importance of Cross-Border Taxation and Tax Incentives

    This paper investigates the taxation of investments in the Asia-Pacific region. Our analysis is based on the methodology of Devereux and Griffith (1999, 2003) for determining effective average tax rates. This…

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