ZEW Discussion Papers

ZEW Discussion Papers
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. 05-36 // 2005

    Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-35 // 2005

    License Expenditures of Incumbents and Potential Entrants: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Behavior

    This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses.…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-34 // 2005

    The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers

    Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-33 // 2005

    Konzernsteuerquote und Invesitionsverhalten

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-32 // 2005

    Energy Biased Technical Change A CGE Analysis

    This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between…

    Environmental and Climate Economics
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-31 // 2005

    The Effective Tax Burden of Companiesand on Highly Skilled Manpower: Tax Policy Strategies in a Globalized Economy

    Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-30 // 2005

    On the Transition from Instantaneous to Time-Lagged Capital Accumilation

    We formulate an optimal control capital accumulation model with a Leontief-type production function and an exogenously given time-lag between investment and the accumulation of the capital stock, to analyze the…

    Environmental and Climate Economics
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-29 // 2005

    Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data

    Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-28 // 2005

    Integrating Bottom-Up into Top-Down: A Mixed Complementarity Approach

    We motivate the formulation of market equilibria as a mixed complementarity problem (MCP) in order to bridge the gap between bottom-up energy system models and top-down general equilibrium models for energy…

    Environmental and Climate Economics

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