1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 02-14 // 2002

    Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland - ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

    We assess the design of the recent environmental tax reform in Germany. Based on fundamental welfare economics we argue that extensive tax reductions and rebates in favour of energy-intensive …

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 02-04 // 2002

    Do Innovation Subsidies Crowd Out Private Investment? Evidence from the German Service Sector

    This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical economic literature there is still no common support for the hypothesis of either a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 02-02 // 2002

    The Impact of Venture Capital on Firm Growth: An Empirical Investigation

    The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 02-01 // 2002

    Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

    This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make…

  5. ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen Bd. 59 // 2002

    Steuerbelastung von Unternehmen im Alpenraum

    Für die Attraktivität einer Region als Investitionsstandort spielt die Steuerbelastung eine wichtige Rolle. In dieser Studie werden deshalb mit der Methode von King und Fullerton standortspezifische…