1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2017

    Krisenkommunikation Online – Politische (Risiko-)Kommunikation am Beispiel der Reaktion der Bundesregierung zu Germanwings-Flug 4U9525

    How to tackle crisis and risk in the best way as a government in the age of social media? Based on the German federal government’s online crisis communication on the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525, this…

  2. ZEW Newsletter // 2017

    2017-05

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Fourth Annual MaTax Conference
      • Ninth ReCapNet Conference on Commercial Real Estate Finance and Investment
    3. Personalia
      • Appointments
    4. Press Releases
    5. Recent Publications
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-023 // 2017

    Risk Attitudes, Job Mobility and Subsequent Wage Growth During the Early Career

    Job change is a decision under uncertainty: It is associated with costs whereas the decision is made without full knowledge about future benefits. In order to investigate the relationship between willingness…

  4. ZEW Newsletter // 2017

    2013-12

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • ZEW Workshop Skill Mismatch - Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Relevance (April 10-11, 2014)
      • Twelfth ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication…
  5. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2017

    May 2017

    • Economic Optimism Dampened Significantly: Outlook Stable in the Long Term
    • 33 analysts participated in the May survey, which was conducted during the period 2 till 17 May 2017
  6. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2017

    Juni 2017

    • Konjunkturoptimismus bleibt bestehen
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen ziehen weiter an
    • USA: Trumps Vertrauensvorschuss ist verspielt
    • Japan: Konjunkturerwartungen gehen leicht zurück
    • Großbritannien:…
  7. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Development and utilization of energy-related technologies, economic performance and the role of policy instruments

    The present study investigates the effects of energy-related technologies on economic performance at firm level. We distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Repeated Pro-Social Behavior in the Presence of Economic Interventions

    We investigate the immediate and subsequent effects of two prominent drivers of charitable giving: a charitable lottery and an income tax. Employing a modified two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-022 // 2017

    Evaluating Regulation Within an Artificial Financial System – A Framework and Its Application to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio Regulation

    We develop a general model of the financial system that allows for the evaluation of bank regulation. Our framework comprises the agents and institutions that have proved crucial in the propagation of the…