ZEW Discussion Papers

Overview

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. 02-80 // 2002

    Competition in the German Broadband Access Market

    This paper gives a survey of the current state of competition in the German Broadband access market. Existing regulations and their impact on the deployment of high-speed Internet access are evaluated. It is…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-77 // 2002

    What Drives Market Structure? On the Relation Between Firm Demographic Processes, Firms’ Innovative Behaviour and Market Structure.

    In this paper we suggest an structural model that specifies firm growth as a function of firm specific parameters and of competition for purchase power with other firms on a given market. Moreover, we…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-76 // 2002

    Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

    The neoclassical model of the production function, as applied by Robert Solow to build the neoclassical model of growth, linked labor and capital to output. More recently, Romer and others have expanded the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-74 // 2002

    Research and Development: Financial Constraints and the Role of Public Funding for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

    This paper presents microeconometric evidence on financing contraints for research and development activities in German small and medium–sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-73 // 2002

    Measuring the Impact of Innovation on Firm Value: A New Approach

    Most of the existing empirical literature on the relationship of firm value and knowledge capital is based on the stock market valuation of companies. However, the assets of many firms are not publicly traded,…

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