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.

ZEW Discussion Papers
ZEW Discussion Papers
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External Research Publications
  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-16 // 2005

    Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts

    This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-15 // 2005

    Rent-sharing: Does the Bargaining Regime Make a Difference? Theory and Empirical Evidence

    This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Particular emphasis lies on the question of whether the extent of rent-sharing varies across different systems of…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-13 // 2005

    Workers into Managers – Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

    This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-12 // 2005

    Planning or Propaganda? An Evaluation of Germany’s Medium-term Budgetary Planning

    In Germany, the medium-term financial planning (“Mifrifi”) was introduced at the end of the sixties. This study scrutinizes the experience of the German Bund with more than thirty years of financial planning. …

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-11 // 2005

    Yardstick Competition and Policy Innovation

    A simple model of yardstick competition between jurisdictions is presented. Governments of jurisdictions face the alternative to choose between an old and a new policy with stochastic payoffs. The new policy…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-10 // 2005

    Imputation Rules to Improve the Education Variable in the IAB Employment Subsample

    The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings: missing values and inconsistencies with the reporting rule. We propose several deductive imputation procedures to improve the…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-08 // 2005

    Policy Innovation in Local Jurisdictions: Testing the Neighborhood Influence Against the Free-Riding Hypothesis

    Before making di±cult decisions, individuals tend to collect information on decision makers in reference groups. With respect to policy innovations in a decentralized public sector, this may give rise to…

    Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-06 // 2005

    The Efficiency Costs of Separating Carbon Markets Under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme: A Quantitative Assessment for Germany

    From 1 January 2005 onwards the European Union has launched the first largescale international carbon emissions trading program. As the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) covers only part of domestic carbon…

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

    Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?

    We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered…

    Labour Markets and Social Insurance

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