1. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes: Exploring the Effects of the Poor People’s Campaign

    The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-017 // 2025

    No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

    Many European companies face the challenge of lowering CO2 emissions from their company car fleets. A promising lever is to increase the notoriously low electric usage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2025

    The Private Value of Entrepreneurial Control: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment

    We study how much entrepreneurs value control rights in the context of VC financing. While many entrepreneurs prefer to maintain control, transferring control rights is also central to VC contract design.…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-005 // 2025

    Organized Labor Versus Robots? Evidence From Microdata

    New technologies drive productivity growth, yet the distribution of gains may be unequal. We study how labor market institutions – specifically shop-floor worker representation – mediate the impact of…

  5. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    03/2025 – Fiscal Policy

    A sensible fiscal policy is a central element of economic policy and – through taxes and public spending – influences a country’s competitiveness. The settings of fiscal policy have changed very much due to…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. In the case of Denmark, the country with the…

  7. Non-Refereed Journal // 2025

    Digital Media Markets: How to Curb Hate Speech and Fake News?

    A core challenge for media economics in the digital age is to establish frameworks that neither endanger user safety nor undermine the diversity of information. Hate speech, misinformation and sensationalism…

  8. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    März 2025

    • Erwartungen kräftig angestiegen, Lage bleibt stabil
    • Eurozone: Wirtschaftsausblick verbessert sich bei steigenden Inflationserwartungen
    • China: Steigende Unsicherheit über Inflation und Konjunktur
    • Aktien und…