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.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-07 // 1996

    Firm Formation in High-Tech Industries: Empirical Results for Germany

    During the last years more and more discussions came up about the contribution of technology-oriented and technology-intensive industries for the economic development and employment. The estimates of the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-04 // 1996

    Improving the Pricing of Options. A Neutral Network Approach

    In this paper we apply statistical inference techniques to build neural network models which are ahle to explain the prices of call options written on the German stock index DAX. By testing for the explanatory…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 96-01 // 1996

    Public Works for Poland? Active Labour Market Policies during Transition

    Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more…

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