1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-14 // 2002

    Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland - ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

    We assess the design of the recent environmental tax reform in Germany. Based on fundamental welfare economics we argue that extensive tax reductions and rebates in favour of energy-intensive …

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-04 // 2002

    Do Innovation Subsidies Crowd Out Private Investment? Evidence from the German Service Sector

    This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical economic literature there is still no common support for the hypothesis of either a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-02 // 2002

    The Impact of Venture Capital on Firm Growth: An Empirical Investigation

    The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-01 // 2002

    Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

    This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make…

  5. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2002

    Sharing the Burden of Carbon Abatement in the European Union

  6. Non-Refereed Journal // 2002

    Challenges facing Central and Eastern European Exchanges

    The article analyses the current state of CEE exchanges and describes possible future forms of organisations amongst CEE and Western European exchanges.