1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-062 // 2025

    Intangible Assets and Productivity at the Firm Level: R&D versus non-R&D Intangibles

    Intangible assets have increasingly been identified as a main source of productivity gains. Since the pioneering work by Corrado, Hulten, and Sichel (2005), empirical research has largely focused on macro and…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-061 // 2025

    Firms’ Disclosure of University Ties on Their Website: An Explorative Analysis of Ist Role for Innovation Performance

    This paper explores a novel web-based indicator to examine how firms’ disclosure of university ties on their websites shapes their innovation performance. First, using data from the German Community Innovation…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Intergenerational mobility in Latin America: The multiple facets of social status and the role of mothers

    We assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

    How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Industriepolitik in Europa

    Die Industriepolitik rückt zunehmend in den Fokus der deutschen und der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik. In diesem Beitrag entwickeln Hanna Hottenrott, Roman Inderst, Eckhard Janeba, Klaus Schmidt, Achim Wambach…