1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2020

    The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

    We study the political economy of allocation decisions within a major state investment bank. Our focus is the European Investment Bank (EIB) - "The Bank of the EU" - which is the largest multilateral lending…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-022 // 2020

    Higher-Order Income Risk over the Business Cycle

    We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-021 // 2020

    Measuring Organisation Capital at the Firm Level: A Production Function Approach

    Organisation capital is a key intangible asset, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring this asset is notoriously difficult. This paper applies a firm-level production function approach including, in…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-020 // 2020

    The Political Economy of Negotiating International Carbon Markets

    International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best…

  5. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2020

    1. Quartal 2020

    • Konjunktureinbruch in der Informationswirtschaft
    • Viele Unternehmen stellen DSGVO schlechtes Zeugnis aus
  6. Gutachten // 2020

    Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2019

    Ziel dieser Studie ist es, für die 28 EU-Staaten sowie die Schweiz, Norwegen, Republik Mazedonien, Türkei, USA, Kanada und Japan effektive Steuersätze zu ermitteln. Dabei stützt sich die Berechnung der…