1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe

    A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to estimate the…

  2. German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report) // 2018

    Third Quarter 2018

    • Brighter Sentiment Relating to the Current Financing Situation
    • Assessment of the Financing Situation Remains Positive at the Same Level as Last Year
    • Bricks-and-mortar Retail is Under Pressure
    • Noticeable Slight…
  3. ZEW Newsletter // 2018

    2018-09

    1. News
    2. Personalia
      • Guests at ZEW
    3. Press Releases
    4. Recent Publications
      IN ENGLISH
      • German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI) Report
      • ZEW Discussion Papers
      • Expertises/Research Reports
      IN…
  4. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2018

    September 2018

    • Economic Outlook for China Nosedives
    • 28 analysts participated in the September survey, which was conducted during the period 5 till 20 September 2018
  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Social Integration in Two-Sided Matching Markets

    When several two-sided matching markets merge into one, it is inevitable that some agents will become worse off if the matching mechanism used is stable. I formalize this observation by defining the…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes: Evidence from Historical Constitutions

    This paper studies the reduced-form effects of constitutional-level balanced budget rules (BBRs) on scal outcomes. Using historical data for a large set of countries dating back to the nineteenth …

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-033 // 2018

    Web Mining of Firm Websites: A Framework for Web Scraping and a Pilot Study for Germany

    Existing approaches to model innovation ecosystems have been mostly restricted to qualitative and small-scale levels or, when relying on traditional innovation indicators such as patents and questionnaire-based…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database

    The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a…