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. 96-17 // 1996

    Price Indexes for PC Database Software and the Value of Code Compatibility

    Changing product quality poses a challenge for the computation of price indexes, in particular in technologically advanced industries. We assess the differences between traditional and quality-corrected indexes…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-16 // 1996

    Tests of Representative Firm Models: Results from German Manufacturing Industries

    Many studies of producer behavior consider cost and input demand functions derived from microeconomic theory and estimate them on the basis of aggregate data. If firms' characteristics differs, the neglect…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-14 // 1996

    Employment and Wage Effect of Sicial Security Financing. An Empirical Analysis of the West German Experience and Some Policy Simulations

    This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un -- )employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-13 // 1996

    The Size Distribution of Profits from Innovation

    The research reported in this paper seeks to determine how skewed the distribution of profits from technological innovation is -- i.e., whether it conforms most closely to the Paretian, log normal, or some other…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-12 // 1996

    Value at Risk: Proposals on a Generalization

    The Value at Risk approach (VaR) is more and more used as a tool for risk measurement. The approach however has shortcomings both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. VaR can be classified within…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-10 // 1996

    Technologietransfer von Hochschulen: Ein Insider-Outsider-Effekt

    This paper deals with the conditions of effective transfer of technology from Universities and public research institutions to small and medium-sized enterprises. The theoretical and empirical analyses lead to…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-09 // 1996

    Der langfristige Zusammenhang zwischen demographischen und budgetären Varibalen

    The German population is aging. Since fewer children are born and simultaneously life expectancy rises, demographic changes will lead to a double aging process. The paper analyzes the effects of demographic…

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