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  News // 15.11.2024

  ZEW Health Economist Simon Reif Among the Top 40 Under 40

  insurers receive financial allocations for their policyholders based on the health status of the individual – those who are sicker get more money. As a result, insurers have no financial incentive to invest [...] into how health care can be better organised. The research focuses on the provision of health care services, in particular the market structure, remuneration systems and digitalisation in the health care
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  Press Releases // 15.05.2024

  Hospital Reform: Need for Improvement

  treated. A genuine capacity-based reimbursement would financially compensate the mere provision of standby capacity, regardless of the volume of services provided. Under the proposal, current misallocations [...] possible. To achieve a transformation of the hospital landscape towards a greater concentration of services despite this design flaw, the capacity reimbursement is to be linked to minimum quantities that
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  News // 27.05.2024

  Strengthening Germany as a Centre of Innovation

  economic cycle Although the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment, which reflects the assessment of financial market experts on economic development, rose for the eighth time in a row in March 2024, this came [...] strong in terms of R&D. Companies in vehicle manufacturing, information and communication technology services, the electrical industry, the chemical/pharmaceutical industry and mechanical engineering in particular
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  Press Releases // 15.05.2024

  Economist Friedrich Heinemann on the Debate over the Return to Compulsory Service

  Heidelberg University, comments on the debate surrounding the return to compulsory service: - “At first glance, compulsory service – whether in the military or in the social sector – seems plausible. The Bundeswehr [...] would acquire important skills during such service and contribute to the common good. A win-win situation, one might think. However, labour market and financial policy implications have hardly been considered [...] that mandatory service saves costs or effectively addresses the growing shortage of personnel in critical infrastructures is not convincing. In fact, a one-year compulsory community service would even exacerbate
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  News // 23.04.2024

  “The AI Act Shouldn’t Stifle the Market Dynamics“

  or sales portals – from benefiting from broad knowledge, while favouring their own products and services and putting competitors at a disadvantage. BZ: Is the antitrust toolkit sufficient for this? During [...] There are already some requirements concerning interconnectivity and data portability for messaging services. But the DMA has only recently taken effect. The only thing missing is experience. BZ: Right now [...] new players? We already have decent regulations with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and with the AI Act. These must first
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  Press Releases // 23.02.2024

  Claudia von Schuttenbach New Managing Director of ZEW Mannheim

  After many successful years of service at ZEW, the longstanding managing director, Thomas Kohl, will be leaving the research institute at the end of the month to retire. He will be handing over the reins [...] departure of Thomas Kohl, an era comes to an end. Under his leadership, ZEW has achieved significant financial stability while successfully initiating and implementing numerous innovative research projects.
• Publications // 19.02.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Subsidising Innovation Outside or Within Firms’ Existing Knowledge Base: Which Is Best for Radical Innovation?

  Public financial support for firm-level Research and Innovation (R&I) can generate important socio-economic returns. This is especially true if firms use this support to develop radical innovation [...] , defined as new-to-market goods and services. However, radical innovation is risky, and prone to failure. Therefore, subsidising radical innovation can also generate sub-optimal socio-economic returns
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  News // 01.02.2024

  Knowledge Transfer at the Bosporus

  Turkish state university supported financially by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and by the active participation of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). As a unique international [...] assume a two-year guest professorship starting February 2024 as part of the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) Long-Term Lectureship Programme at the renowned Turkish-German University (TDU) in Istanbul
• Publications // 21.12.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Broken Relationships: De-Risking by Correspondent Banks and International Trade

  information on severed correspondent banking relationships (due to the stricter enforcement of financial crime regulation) to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level [...] from emerging Europe, we show that when local respondent banks lose access to correspondent banking services, their corporate borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive
• Publications // 07.12.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - State-Owned Enterprises, Fiscal Transparency, and the Circumvention of Fiscal Rules: The Case of Germany

  enterprises (SOEs) provide opportunities for a more flexible and marketbased provision of public services. At the same time, they may impair fiscal transparency and offer politicians discretion in the presence [...] SOEs, this paper studies a possible impact of the German debt brake on SOEs by tracking changes in financial indicators at the firm level that would hint to a circumvention of the rule. The identification