1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2018

    Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes: Evidence from Historical Constitutions

    This paper studies the reduced-form effects of constitutional-level balanced budget rules (BBRs) on scal outcomes. Using historical data for a large set of countries dating back to the nineteenth …

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-039 // 2018

    Higher Taxes on Less Elastic Goods? Evidence from German Municipalities

    German municipalities have substantial autonomy in setting taxes on two distinct tax bases: business profits and property values. We use this setting and a two-step approach to explore whether implemented tax…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-033 // 2018

    Web Mining of Firm Websites: A Framework for Web Scraping and a Pilot Study for Germany

    Existing approaches to model innovation ecosystems have been mostly restricted to qualitative and small-scale levels or, when relying on traditional innovation indicators such as patents and questionnaire-based…

  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2018

    Oktober 2018

    • Ausblick verbessert sich leicht – Risiken und Chancen liegen im Auslandsgeschäft
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen verbessern sich erneut
    • USA: Erwartungen gehen erneut zurück
    • Japan: Konjunkturlage verbessert…
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-038 // 2018

    Exploration vs Exploitation, Impulse Balance Equilibrium, and a Specification Test for the El Farol Bar Problem

    The paper reports on market-entry experiments that manipulate both payoff structures and payoff levels to assess two stationary models of behaviour: Exploration vs Exploitation (EvE, which is equivalent to…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-037 // 2018

    Training in the Great Recession - Evidence from an Individual Perspective

    This paper analyses the effect of the economic crisis in 2008 and 2009 on individual training activities of different employee groups within establishments. We use a unique German linked employer–employee panel…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-036 // 2018

    Cross-Border Tax Evasion After the Common Reporting Standard: Game Over?

    We study the short term effect of the first global multilateral standard for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI), the so called Common Reporting Standard (CRS), on cross border tax evasion. Our sample…