1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-047 // 2025

    Rising Energy Prices Without Falling Consumption? The Role of Energy Price Dispersion in a Multi-Product World

    Governments around the world are under pressure to reduce industrial energy use and emissions without losing out to international competition. For this reason, climate policies often come with exemptions or…

  2. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    September 2025

    • Erwartungen stabilisieren sich, aber Verschlechterung der Lage
    • Eurozone: Verbesserung der Konjunkturerwartungen und -lage
    • USA: Konjunkturlage bleibt stabil
    • China: Einschätzungen bleiben weiterhin stabil
    • Negativrevis…
  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Staggered Contracts and Unemployment During Recessions

    We analyze the impact of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) due to collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) on wage and employment dynamics during two major recessions in Spain: the low-inflation recession of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-038 // 2025

    Profit-Share Auctions in Procurement

    We investigate profit-share auctions in a procurement context,comparing them with traditional cash auctions to identify which mechanism yields lower expenses for buyers. We also explore whether specifying a high…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    ‘Make in India’ or Miss the Moment?

    Despite a decade of “Make in India,” the country’s manufacturing ambitions remain hamstrung by a fundamental constraint of skills deficit rooted in weak education policies. Drawing on systematic historical…

  6. 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…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-045 // 2025

    Far-Right Mass Protests and Their Effects on Internal Migration

    We study how far-right mass rallies affect people’s views about a city and thus location choices of nationals. To this end, we first exploit that the city of Dresden (Germany) unexpectedly experienced such…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-044 // 2025

    Congestion Management Games in Electricity Markets

    This paper proposes a game-theoretic model to analyze the strategic behavior of incdec gaming in market-based congestion management (redispatch). We extend existing models by considering incomplete information…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-042 // 2025

    Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: The Multiple Facets of Social Status and the Role of Mothers

    We assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both…