1. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2025

    1. Quartal 2025

    • Langzeittief in der Informationswirtschaft
    • Unternehmen versichern sich gegen Cyberattacken
  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2025

    Commuting: The rise of urban air mobility?

  3. Non-Refereed Journal // 2025

    The IAB/ZEW Start-up Panel

    The IAB/ZEW Start-Up Panel is a longitudinal and representative survey established in 2008, designed to focus on founders and their businesses during the very early stages of the firm life cycle. Data on newly…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-022 // 2025

    The Long-Run Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Bolsa Familia in Brazil

    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a key antipoverty policy in Latin America in the last 25 years. The ultimate goal of this kind of programs is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty…

  5. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    04/2025 – Work in the Digital Age

    The digital transformation is opening up new ways of working, collaborating and shaping the future – whether through remote work, AI-supported processes or virtual teams. This offers opportunities for more…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Patentability Requirements and the Direction of Innovation

    We model a duopolistic game where firms first choose the direction of their innovation, then invest in the chosen direction, and finally, compete in the product market. Investments occur either in overlapping or…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-019 // 2025

    The WebAI Paradigm of Innovation Research: Extracting Insight From Organizational Web Data Through AI

    This paper introduces the WebAI paradigm as a promising approach for innovation studies, business analytics, and informed policymaking. By leveraging artificial intelligence to systematically analyze…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-020 // 2025

    The Participation of Young Firms in Public Procurement

    Public procurement offers sizable market opportunities for young firms. We investigate the firm- and founder-level characteristics determining young firms’ decision to apply for public tenders, as well as the…

  9. Refereed Journal // 2025

    The Benefits of Early Work Experience for School Dropouts: Evidence From a Field Experiment

    This paper focuses on the question of whether job-related work experience, especially in tight occupations, is sufficient to increase the employment opportunities of school dropouts in comparison with graduates.…

  10. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    April 2025

    • Konjunkturerwartungen brechen zum „Liberation Day“ ein: ZEW-Index wieder im Minusbereich
    • Eurozone: Rückläufige Inflationserwartungen bei wachsender Konjunkturunsicherheit
    • USA: Erneuter Einbruch der…