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. 23-042 // 2023

    Trade Shocks and Social Mobility: The Intergenerational Effect of Import Competition in Brazil

    This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-041 // 2023

    Mapping Employee Mobility and Employer Networks Using Professional Network Data

    The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a career-oriented social networking platform…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-040 // 2023

    Mobilizing Credit for Clean Energy: De-risking and Public Loan Provision Under Learning Spillovers

    Policymakers regularly rely on public financial institutions and government offices to provide loans to clean energy projects. However, the market failures that public loan provision addresses and the role it…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-039 // 2023

    Committing to Grow: Privatizations and Firm Dynamics in East Germany

    This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-038 // 2023

    The Benefits of Auctioneer Competition: Merging Auctions and Adding Auctioneers

    In a lab experiment, we analyze the benefits of increasing competition on auction platforms hosting multiple auctioneers of a homogeneous good. We find that increasing competition by merging separated individual…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-037 // 2023

    The Value of a Loss: The Impact of Restricting Tax Loss Transfers

    We study the economic consequences of anti-loss trafficking rules, which disallow the use of loss carry-forwards as tax shield after a substantial ownership change. We use staggered changes to anti-loss…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-036 // 2023

    Multinational Firms in Tax Havens – Corporate Motives, Regulatory Countermeasures, and Recent Statistics

    We investigate multinational firms' activities in tax havens and regulatory efforts to curb these activities in three steps. First, we discuss the evolution of information exchange and disclosure regimes among…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-035 // 2023

    Strategic Management in Public Procurement: The Role of Dynamic Capabilities in Equity and Efficiency

    A key issue in strategic management in the public sector is how government creates economic and social value through procurement. Unfortunately, most procurement studies are based on contract theories, which…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-034 // 2023

    Homeownership Rates, Housing Policies, and Co-residence Decisions

    Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by differences in the fraction of adults co-residing with their parents. Comparing Germany and…

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