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. 96-32 // 1996

    Has Earnings Inequality in Germany Changed in the 1980s?

    The development of the West German earnings distributionin the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German Socio-EconomicPanel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the FederalLabour Office. We…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-31 // 1996

    Nonparametric Bounds on Employment and Income Effects of Continuous Vocational Training in East Germany

    This paper explores the potential of an approach suggested by Manski of obtaining nonparametric bounds for treatment effects in evaluation studies without knowledge of the participation process. The practicai…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-30 // 1996

    Poland on the Dole. Unemployment Benefits, Training and Long-Term Unemployment during Transition

    We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-29 // 1996

    Retail Distribution Channel Barriers to International Trade

    With the referral of the Kodak - Fuji market access dispute to the World Trade Organization, the role of retail distribution channel control by incumbent firms as a barrier to imports has drawn much interest.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-26 // 1996

    International Competition Policy and Economic Development

    During the past half century many nations have adopted policies whose function is to discourage cartels and other restrictive practices. Industrialized nations led the movement toward pro-competition policies,…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-25 // 1996

    Delta-Neutral Volatility Trading with Intra-Day Prices: An Application to Options on the DAX

    This paper evaluates the profitability of applying four different volatility forecastingmodels to the trading of straddles on the German stock market index DAX. Special carehas been taken to use simultaneous…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-24 // 1996

    Competition Policy Convergence: Where Next?

    As the 20th Century dawned, there were radical divergences in the policies individual nations pursued toward restraints of competition by cartels and monopolies. Since World War II there has been considerable…

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