Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Innovationsökonomik und Unternehmensdynamik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-046 // 2025

    Hybrid Contracting in Repeated Interactions

    Many business relationships begin with informal interactions and later transition to formal contracts. Using a repeated-games model with a finite horizon, we show that this hybrid-contracting approach can both…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Support for Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind Power

    The rise of societal goals like climate change mitigation and energy security calls for rapid capacity growth in renewable electricity sources, yet citizens’ support is put to a test when such technologies emit…

  3. ZEW policy brief Nr. 25-08 // 2025

    The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

    China’s patenting activity has surged over the past two decades, yet questions remain about the quality and sources of innovation. We develop a new method to measure the importance of a patent for innovation,…

  4. ZEW policy brief Nr. 25-03 // 2025

    Better Safe than Sorry? Toxic Waste Management after Union Elections

    U.S. manufacturing facilities generate approximately 30 billion pounds of hazardous waste annually, 10% of which is released into the environment. The negative economic and health impacts of such toxic chemicals…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-037 // 2025

    “Dance to my Tune!” Discovery Mode and Built-In Recommendation Bias

    We examine the strategic considerations and effects of product placement services in digital content aggregators, focusing in particular on Spotify’s “Discovery Mode”. Discovery Mode introduces bias in users’…

  6. ZEW policy brief Nr. 25-09 // 2025

    Forschungszulage: Ein neues Förderinstrument wächst und gedeiht

    Im Jahr 2020 wurde mit der Forschungszulage eine steuerliche Förderung von Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in Unternehmen eingeführt. Sie setzt Anreize für die Erhöhung der FuE-Aufwendungen, da ein Teil dieser…