1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-065 // 2020

    Champions of Digital Transformation? The Dynamic Capabilities of Hidden Champions

    Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation capabilities and economic performance. However, empirical evidence on how the digital…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-068 // 2020

    Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic

    We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-067 // 2020

    Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets

    Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-066 // 2020

    Understanding the Response to High-Stakes Incentives in Primary Education

    This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-064 // 2020

    Elite Structure and the Provision of Health-Promoting Public Goods

    We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-063 // 2020

    On the Determinants and Effects of Corporate Tax Transparency: Review of an Emerging Literature

    In response to discussions about large multinational enterprises’ tax planning activities, legislators around the world have adopted numerous regulations to increase corporate tax transparency. New…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-062 // 2020

    The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on (Self-) Employment: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known…

  8. ZEW-Newsletter // 2020

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