1. Refereed Journal // 2010

    Do Equity Preferences Matter for Climate Negotiators? An Experimental Investigation

    This paper investigates whether climate negotiators have preferences for equity and whether these preferences may help to explain different positions in international climate policy. For this purpose we…

  2. Financial Market Report CEE // 2010

    April 2010

    • Positive Economic Expectations for Central and Eastern Europe
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Rising Inflation Concerns
    • Hungary, Romania, and Croatia: Improved Economic Outlook
    • Special Question: Private…
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-016 // 2010

    Choosing Your Object of Benevolence – A Field Experiment on Donation Options

    The tragedy of little Madeleine in 2007 did not only catch the headlines of the public media but was also followed with interest by researchers after the remarkably successful donation acquisition of the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-015 // 2010

    Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

    Since the late 1970s and continuing through the mid-2000s, overall wage inequality has been increasing in the U.S., Germany, and the UK as well as in other countries. As possible explanations of these trends,…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-014 // 2010

    Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap

    Wage inequality has been increasing in many industrialized countries over the past decades. Parallel to this trend, coverage by collective wage bargaining has declined strongly in many economies (OECD, 2004).…

  6. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2010

    April 2010

    • Erwartungen nahezu unverändert
    • EZB: Keine Änderung der Leitzinsen erwartet
    • USA: Experten erwarten weiterhin niedrige Leitzinsen
    • Japan: Einschätzung der Konjunkturlage etwas positiver
    • Großbritannien: Einbruch der…