ZEW Discussion Papers

ZEW Discussion Papers
ZEW Discussion Papers
Periodical ZEW Publications
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External Research Publications

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. 00-53 // 2000

    Berücksichtigung von Steuern bei der Bewertung von Unternehmen am Beispiel der DCF-Methoden

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-52 // 2000

    Business Services in Germany: Bridges for Innovation

    During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-51 // 2000

    Outsourcing of Services, Imported Materials and the Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: An Application of a Generalised Box-Cox Function

    Over the last decades manufacturers have outsourced service inputs and shared resources with competitors. As a result, service inputs have been the fastest growing input factor in German manufacturing, followed…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-50 // 2000

    Länderautonomie in der Einkommensteuer: Konsequenzen eines Zuschlagsmodells

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-49 // 2000

    Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-48 // 2000

    Gender Wage Differences in West Germany: A Cohort Analysis

    A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage di erences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-47 // 2000

    Empirical Determinants of Employee Resistance Against Innovations

    Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empiri- cal evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-46 // 2000

    Industry-level Emission Trading Between Power Producers in the EU

    In this paper we investigate how restrictions for emission trading to the energy-intensive power sector will affect the magnitude and distribution of abatement costs across EU countries vis-à-vis a comprehensive…

    Environmental and Climate Economics
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-45 // 2000

    Carbon Taxes and Joint Implementation. An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis for Germany and India

    Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform…

    Environmental and Climate Economics