ZEW Discussion Papers

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of…

National economic concerns still hinder the implementation of effective policy measures that would enable a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Considering other economic problems like…

East-west German wage convergence in the period 1990 to 1995 is analyzed on the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Empirical wage equations show that the west German wage structure has remained fairly…

Gerlach and Stephan (1994) proposed a test based on the idea that the "wage premium", the part of the wage which is not explained by the stock of human capital, should help predict variables such as career…

In this paper, we analyse the influence of firm characteristics and the regional environment on employment growth of East German manufacturing firms between 1992 and 1996. Our results confirm the negative impact…

Infolge der Globalisierung des Wettbewerbs und verstärkter Maßnahmen zum Abbau von Handelsbarrieren in der Europäischen Union tritt die Bedeutung von Ländergrenzen für unternehmerische Handlungen zunehmend in…

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Olinerand Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt…

In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, inwieweit mit Hilfe einer Senkung der direkten Steuern bzw. der Sozialabgaben und einer gleichzeitigen Erhöhung der indirekten Steuern zur Kompensation der Einnahmenausfälle…