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.

ZEW Discussion Papers
ZEW Discussion Papers
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  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-02 // 2001

    Kosten der privaten Altersvorsorge - Private Rentenversicherungen und Fondssparpläne im Vergleich

    Pensions and Sustainable Financial...
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-01 // 2001

    Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-03 // 2001

    Die Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gründungsförderung auf das Überleben und Wachstum junger Unternehmen

    In this paper we examine causal effects of German public assistance programs for young firms administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA). The empirical analysis is based on a combined data set with…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-18 // 2001

    Comparing the Part-time Wage Gap in Germany and the Netherlands

    In this paper,I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of fulltimers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark,helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-15 // 2001

    How Do Investors' Expectations Drive Asset Prices?

    Asset price processes are completely described by information processes and investors' preferences. In this paper we derive the relationship between the process of investors' expectations of the terminal stock…

    Pensions and Sustainable Financial...
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-05 // 2001

    Die Auswirkungen der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-08 // 2000

    A Note on the Calculation of Firm-specific and Skill-specific Labor Costs from Firm-Ievel Data

    Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-25 // 2000

    Research Cooperation and Research Expenditures

    This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-05 // 2000

    Cohort Effects and the Returns to Education in West Germany

    Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance

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