1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2021

    Global Distribution Patterns of Carbapenemase-Encoding Bacteria in a New Light: Clues on a Role for Ethnicity

    Antibiotic resistance represents a major global concern. The rapid spread of opportunistically pathogenic carbapenemase-encoding bacteria (CEB) requires clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers to swiftly find…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2021

    Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence on the Role of Trade in Europe

    Digital technologies displace labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop an empirically tractable task-based framework to estimate the aggregate…

  3. #ZEWPodcast // 2021

    Folge 11 mit Jun.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Steffes: Gleichberechtigung am Arbeitsplatz

    Familienbedingte Auszeiten, Teilzeitarbeit, schlechter bezahlte Berufe – die Ursachen für das unterschiedliche Einkommensniveau zwischen Frauen und Männern sind vielfältig. In der elften Folge des #ZEWPodcasts…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-054 // 2021

    Cost Dynamics of Clean Energy Technologies

    The pace of the global decarbonization process is widely believed to hinge on the rate of cost improvements for clean energy technologies, in particular renewable power and energy storage. This paper…

  5. ZEW-Kurzexpertise Nr. 21-06 // 2021

    The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Innovation

    In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures…

  6. ZEW policy brief Nr. 21-05 // 2021

    A Smart Design of New EU Emissions Trading Could Save 61 Per Cent of Mitigation Costs

    Carbon pricing is a key instrument for achieving Europe’s ambitious climate targets. It is therefore not surprising that reform of the EU carbon market is at the heart of the measures proposed by the European…

  7. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2021

    August 2021

    • Lageeinschätzung zum ersten Mal seit zwei Jahren im positiven Bereich
    • Euroraum: Starker Rückgang in den Konjunkturerwartungen
    • USA: Einschätzung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Situation verbessert sich
    • China:…