ZEW Discussion Papers

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Mit diesen Beiträgen, die überwiegend in Englisch verfasst sind, beteiligen sich die Forscher/innen des ZEW an wissenschaftlichen Fachdebatten. Die Publikationen enthalten vorläufige Beiträge, die zur Veröffentlichung in Fachzeitschriften vorgesehen sind. Die Discussion Papers können ab 1.1.1998 als pdf-Datei abgerufen werden. Sie richten sich an nationale und internationale Zielgruppen.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-033 // 2022

    Patent Collateral and Access to Debt

    We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-032 // 2022

    Democracy and the Quality of Economic Institutions: Theory and Evidence

    We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-031 // 2022

    Adjustments of Local Labour Markets to the COVID-19 Crisis: the Role of Digitalisation and Working-from-Home

    Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the pandemic, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 20 percentage points. We show…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-029 // 2022

    College Openings and Local Economic Development

    We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-028 // 2022

    Better Us Later Than Me Now – Regulatee-Size and Time-Inconsistency as Determinants of Demand for Environmental Policies

    To adequately design and implement effective environmental policies, it is paramount for policymakers to understand preferences for regulatory instruments as well as their individual level determinants. In this…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-027 // 2022

    Climate Change Mitigation: How Effective Is Green Quantitative Easing?

    We develop a two sector incomplete markets integrated assessment model to analyze the effectiveness of green quantitative easing (QE) in complementing fiscal policies for climate change mitigation. We model…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-026 // 2022

    ZEW-EviSTA: A Microsimulation Model of the German Tax and Transfer System

    This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household…

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