1. ZEW policy brief Nr. 18-04 // 2018

    Abnehmendes Produktivitätswachstum – zunehmende Produktivitätsunterschiede

    Wie in anderen Industriestaaten ist auch in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren trotz eines anhaltenden Wirtschaftswachstums, einer zurückgehenden Arbeitslosigkeit und einer hohen technologischen Dynamik…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-020 // 2018

    Go for Gigabit? First Evidence on Economic Benefits of (Ultra-)Fast Broadband Technologies in Europe

    The literature on the effects of telecommunications infrastructure investments find positive macroeconomic effects, however, it is severely constrained because it could hitherto only analyze investment up to…

  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2018

    Mai 2018

    • Konjunkturerwartungen gehen wegen US-Handelskonflikt erneut stark zurück
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen verschlechtern sich weiter deutlich
    • USA: Rückgang der Konjunkturerwartungen setzt sich fort
    • Japan:…
  4. ZEW-Newsletter // 2018

    2018-03

    1. Aktuelles
    2. Call for Papers
      • 2018 Summer School: Topics and Methods in Labor Market Research
      • 20. ZEW Summer Workshop für junge Ökonomen
      • Vierte internationale ZEW-Konferenz zur Unternehmensdynamik
    3. Pe…
  5. M&A-Report // 2018

    April 2018

    • Deutscher M&A-Index fällt weiter
    • Kaum M&A-Aktivität im EU-Bankensektor
    • China kauft zunehmend deutsches Knowhow
    • Regelung gegen Steuervermeidung verringert Investitionen nach M&A
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-018 // 2018

    New Evidence on Determinants of IP Litigation: A Market-based Approach

    We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-017 // 2018

    The Demand for Global and Local Environmental Protection – Experimental Evidence from Climate Change Mitigation in Beijing

    In this study, the real demand for global and local environmental protection in Beijing, China, is elicited and investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-016 // 2018

    Idiosyncratic Risk, Aggregate Risk, and the Welfare Effects of Social Security

    We ask whether a pay-as-you-go financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic productivity and aggregate business cycle risk. We show analytically that the whole welfare…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-015 // 2018

    Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs

    This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-014 // 2018

    Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk

    We characterize the optimal linear tax on capital in an Overlapping Generations model with two period lived households facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the…