1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-006 // 2014

    Changing Forces of Gravity: How the Crisis Affected International Banking

    The global financial crisis has brought a rather unprecedented period of expansion of banks’ international financial assets and liabilities to an end. In response to the crisis, banks have decreased their…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-005 // 2014

    Dynamic Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Industry. The Case of Rare Earth Elements

    This paper investigates China's capability to exert power on Rare Earth markets until 2020. A dynamic partial equilibrium model allowing for a disaggregated representation of the mining sector and endogenous…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-002 // 2014

    Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control

    We study fair and effcient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-001 // 2014

    Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979 – 2007

    We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the…

  5. ZEW-Innovationserhebung // 2014

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  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2014

    Can Regional Employment Disparities Explain the Allocation of Human Capital Across Space?

    This paper examines the forces driving skill selectivity of regional migration in a context where modelling the migration decision as a wage-maximising process may be insufficient due to persistent employment…