1. Monograph // 2006

    High-Tech Firms’ Long-Term Export Behaviour – The Experience of German and UK Companies

    The study empirically examines the long-term export behaviour of about 200 young technology-oriented companies from Germany and the UK. These firms were contacted by means of two surveys, in 1997 and 2003. In…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-Benefit Policies? An introduction

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-018 // 2006

    Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation

    Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-013 // 2006

    Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

    Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant…