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. 02-09 // 2002

    Rio - 10 Years After: A Critical Appraisal of Climate Policy

    Ten years after the initial Climate Change Convention from Rio in 1992, the developed world is likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol which has been celebrated as a milestone in climate protection. Standard…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-06 // 2002

    A Model of Educational Attainment Application to the German Case

    This paper aims at formulating a theoretical model of educational attainment which is directly implementable empirically. The conceptual frame-work relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-05 // 2002

    The Adoption of Business-to-Business E-Commerce: Empirical Evidence for German Companies

    Although in its infancy, one promising application of Internet technology for firms is so-called Internet commerce or electronic commerce. This paper analyses the determinants of B2B (business-to-business)…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-03 // 2002

    Public Sector Centralization and Productivity Growth: Reviewing the German Experience

    The paper examines the role of the vertical structure of the public sector for economic growth in Germany in a long–term perspective. A theoretical model shows that, due to spillover effects of public service…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-14 // 2002

    Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland - ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

    We assess the design of the recent environmental tax reform in Germany. Based on fundamental welfare economics we argue that extensive tax reductions and rebates in favour of energy-intensive …

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-04 // 2002

    Do Innovation Subsidies Crowd Out Private Investment? Evidence from the German Service Sector

    This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical economic literature there is still no common support for the hypothesis of either a…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-02 // 2002

    The Impact of Venture Capital on Firm Growth: An Empirical Investigation

    The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-01 // 2002

    Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

    This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make…

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