1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-47 // 2003

    Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation

    This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-45 // 2003

    Multifaktormodelle zur Erklärung deutscher Aktienrenditen: Eine empirische Analyse

    Dieses Papier untersucht, inwieweit Multifaktormodelle nach Fama/French (1993) am deutschen Aktienmarkt die zeitliche Streuung von Renditen abbilden und Portfolio-Renditen im Querschnitt erklären können. …

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-44 // 2003

    Is the Behavior of German Venture Capitalists Different? Evidence from the Neuer Markt

    Using a unique, hand-collected database of all venture- backed firms listed on Germany's Neuer Markt, we analyze the history of venture capital financing of these firms before the IPO and the behavior of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-43 // 2003

    Bildungspolitik in Frankreich

    Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die wesentlichen bildungspolitischen Erfahrungen der letzten Jahrzehnte in Frankreich darzustellen und im Hinblick auf die bildungspolitische Debatte in Deutschland zu bewerten. …

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-42 // 2003

    Changes in Union Membership Over Time: A Panel Analysis for West Germany

    Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been declining dramatically since the early 90's. However, aggregate gross membership numbers…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-40 // 2003

    Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

    Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-39 // 2003

    Coagglomeration and Growth

    We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-38 // 2003

    Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy

    In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-37 // 2003

    Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?

    This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 03-34 // 2003

    Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

    This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. …