1. 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…

  2. 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…
  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-035 // 2018

    A Call to Action: From Evolution to Revolution on the Common Reporting Standard

    As a result of technical development and globalization, investing abroad has become much more accessible, and thus, an important channel for transferring wealth and income to offshore locations with the aim to…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-034 // 2018

    Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry – A Comparison between Germany and the U.S.

    In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between…