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
Periodical ZEW Publications
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ZEW Expertises & Research Reports
External Research Publications
  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-45 // 2003

    Multifaktormodelle zur Erklärung deutscher Aktienrenditen: Eine empirische Analyse

    Pensions and Sustainable Financial...
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-44 // 2003

    Is the Behavior of German Venture Capitalists Different? Evidence from the Neuer Markt

    Using a unique, hand-collected database of all venture- backed firms listed on Germany's Neuer Markt, we analyze the history of venture capital financing of these firms before the IPO and the behavior of venture…

    Pensions and Sustainable Financial...
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-43 // 2003

    Bildungspolitik in Frankreich

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-42 // 2003

    Changes in Union Membership Over Time: A Panel Analysis for West Germany

    Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been declining dramatically since the early 90's. However, aggregate gross membership numbers do…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-41 // 2003

    International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-40 // 2003

    Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

    Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-39 // 2003

    Coagglomeration and Growth

    We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-38 // 2003

    Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy

    In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-37 // 2003

    Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?

    This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned…

    Economics of Innovation and Industrial...

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