1. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Local Labour Market Resilience: The Role of Digitalisation and Working from Home

    This article shows that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely…

  2. ZEW policy brief No. 25-11 // 2025

    Catalysts for Change: Can Green Bonds Accelerate Europe’s Transition to a Green Economy?

    Nearly two decades of green bond issues have ignited various research questions and fields surrounding the topic. It is therefore time to take stock. Green bonds were launched with the goal of greening the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-051 // 2025

    Televised Inflation: Measuring TV News Coverage and Its Effect on Household Expectations

    This paper introduces a novel TV news index specifically designed to track coverage of rising inflation across major US TV channels: ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News. The index is generated daily and aggregated into…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-052 // 2025

    The State of European Entrepreneurship: Trends in Quantity and Quality in France, Germany, and the UK (2009–2023)

    This paper replicates and extends the framework of Guzman and Stern (2020) to examine the evolution of entrepreneurial activity in Europe, focusing on France, Germany, and the United Kingdom between 2009 and…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-050 // 2025

    Regulatory Capacity in a Game of Asymmetric Regulation

    In a model of asymmetric regulation, a firm can comply with two regulatory targets, and a regulator can audit the firm for compliance. Inspection by the regulator is imperfect, and it assesses the firm’s…

  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2025

    Karenztage und Absenkung der Lohnersatzrate – eine ökonomische Analyse

    Über das gesamte Jahr 2024 und auch im Jahr 2025 gab es in Deutschland eine leidenschaftlich geführte wirtschaftspolitische Diskussion über (zu) hohe krankheitsbedingte Fehlzeiten. Auslöser dieser breiten…

  7. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    09/2025 – Future Viability

    What will our health care system look like in the future? How can sensible innovation policy be shaped? And how can we ensure a sustainable energy supply when economic and social conditions are constantly…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance

    Linking scientific articles in PubMed and corporate biomedical U.S. patents, we study the role of inventors who are frontier scientists, identified as authors of recent articles in top-general biomedical…