ZEW Discussion Papers

In dieser Arbeit werden Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte im Erwerbsleben untersucht. Es wird analysiert, ob die Ausbildungsinhalte des Dualen Ausbildungssystems im Zeitalter der…

This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses. …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that…

Kapitalmarktorientierte Unternehmen in Deutschland orientieren sich in zunehmendem Maße an der Konzernsteuerquote. Diese unterscheidet sich in wesentlichen Aspekten von den in der Forschung gängigen Maßen der…

This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between…

Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly…

We formulate an optimal control capital accumulation model with a Leontief-type production function and an exogenously given time-lag between investment and the accumulation of the capital stock, to analyze the…

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment…

We motivate the formulation of market equilibria as a mixed complementarity problem (MCP) in order to bridge the gap between bottom-up energy system models and top-down general equilibrium models for energy…