The crises of recent years have produced important innovations in European monetary and fiscal policy. The ECB has greatly expanded its purchases of government bonds and the EU is financing budgetary spending…

This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a two dimensional duopoly model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price…

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• Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen hellen sich auf
• USA: Positiver Trend der Erwartungen hält an, Lage verschlechtert sich
• China:…

The SearchEngine is an open source project providing an integrated framework for diverse matching activities, especially the linkage of large scale firm data by fuzzy criteria like company names and addresses.…

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an…

The ZEW Innovation Survey

• Since 1993, ZEW has been collecting data on the innovation behaviour in the German economy on an annual basis.
• The Innovation Survey is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of…