1. M&A Report // 2010

    May 2010

    • Less M&A Activity in Greece
    • Strategic Restructuring of E.ON
    • Significant Rise in Transaction Values
    • Telecommunications Liberalisation Drives Transaction Activity
    • The Big Players Are Getting Bigger in the…
  2. Refereed Journal // 2010

    Die Veränderung individueller Beschäftigungsfähigkeit durch arbeitsmarktpolitische Intervention - Eine empirische Analyse für ALG II-Beziehende

    Although improving employability as a goal of activating labour market policy is broadly discussed and deeply embedded on a programmatic level of labour market policies, changes in employability are rarely…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-029 // 2010

    Social Return on Investment of Mutual Support Based Housing Projects: Potential for Socio-Economic Cost Savings and Higher Living Quality

    The aging of populations in the demographic change in many industrialized countries will lead to increasing costs of professional support and care for frail elderly. In order to lower the resulting financial…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-028 // 2010

    The Role of Parental Investments for Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation – Evidence for the First 11 Years of Life

    Skill gaps often arise already immediately after birth and increase during childhood long before formal education starts. Thus, early family environment can explain a crucial part of skill heterogeneity among…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-027 // 2010

    Temporary Extra Jobs for Immigrants: Merging Lane to Employment or Dead-End Road in Welfare?

    In the context of a substantial welfare reform in 2005, a new employment program has been introduced in Germany, the so-called Temporary Extra Jobs. These jobs provide temporary work opportunities in the public…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-026 // 2010

    Business Closure and Financial Loss: Who Foots the Bill? Evidence from German Small Business Closures

    Many new firms do not survive the first years in business. Even though, the financial risk for the parties that have a financial stake in the business (i.e. owners, lending institutions and other creditors, such…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-025 // 2010

    Loan Availability and Investment – Can Innovative Companies Better Cope with Loan Denials?

    Access to external financing is of high importance to companies for the financing of fixed investments. Investment in fixed assets occurs in irregular intervals and requires relatively large amounts of…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-024 // 2010

    The Labour Share of Income: Heterogeneous Causes for Parallel Movements?

    Declining labour shares in a large number of countries, particularly in continental Europe, have renewed the academic and political debate about the factors which explain these downward trends. While the share…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-023 // 2010

    Readdressing the Trade Effect of the Euro: Allowing for Currency Misalignment

    The run-up to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the EU has been dominated by tension between a big aspiration and a big concern. The aspiration was that a common currency would reinvigorate the single…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-022 // 2010

    99 Cent: Price Points in E-Commerce

    This paper attempts to shed light on the pricing behaviour of firms or sellers in market places with price competition. In particular, it aims at testing the mechanism that lies at the heart of one of the most…