ZEW Discussion Papers

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Researchers at the ZEW participate in scientific debates by publishing their papers. The papers are predominantly in English (marked). For the German papers an English abstract is available. The contributions are intended for a final publication in special interest titles. The discussion papers can be downloaded as PDF or PostScript files starting from 1.1.1998. They aimed at national and international target groups.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-07 // 1991

    Individual Income, Incomplete Information and Aggregate Consumption

    In this paper I study a model of life-cycle consumption in which individuals react optimally to their own income process but ignore economy wide information. Since individual income is less persistent than…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-06 // 1991

    R & D Incentives and Spillovers in a Two-Industry Model

    This paper develops a two-industry model ofR&D. A monopolist supplier sells an intermediate good to an oligopolistic buyer industry where firms compete in quantity and quality-enhancing R&D. The supplier can…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-05 // 1991

    Estimation of Labour Supply Functions Using Panel Data: A Survey

    This survey aims at providing the reader with a thread through the literature on the topic of panel econometrics of labour supply, reporting also on the evaluation of the data used in these studies, and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-04 // 1991

    Reference-Price Independent Welfare Prescriptions

    A number of studies have evaluated the social welfare impact of price and income changes using equivalent incomes that are computed at some reference price vector, and an aggregator with these equivalent incomes…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-03 // 1991

    Mikroökonometrische Untersuchungen von Aggregationsproblemen: Eine partielle Übersicht

    Dieser Aufsatz beschreibt neuere Entwicklungen in der Aggregationstheorie sowie ausgewählte empirische Arbeiten. Diese stellen exemplarisch dar, wie die Mikroökonometrie eingesetzt werden kann, um…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-02 // 1991

    Modelling and Forecasting Exchange-Rate Volatility with ARCH-Type Models

    The statistical analysis of short-run exchange-rate data shows that there is strong heteroskedasticity and serial dependence of volatility. In addition, the empirical distributions are leptokurtic. The model of…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-01 // 1991

    Alternative Interpretations of Hours Information in an Econometric of Model Labour Supply

    This paper examines the labour supply behaviour of married women in France. Estimating a model with tax parameter variation, careful re-examination of the treatment of the unearned income variable and taking…

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