1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-37 // 2005

    EU Company Taxation in case of a Common Tax Base

    Within the EU the relation between financial and tax accounting will be significantly influenced by the regulation adopted in June 2002 that obliges all listed companies to prepare their consolidated accounts…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-34 // 2005

    The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers

    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…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-33 // 2005

    Konzernsteuerquote und Invesitionsverhalten

    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…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-30 // 2005

    On the Transition from Instantaneous to Time-Lagged Capital Accumilation

    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…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-29 // 2005

    Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data

    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…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-27 // 2005

    Optimal Abatement in Dynamic Multi-Pollutant Problems When Pollutants can be Complements or Substitutes

    We analyze a dynamic multi-pollutant problem where abatement costs of several pollutants are not separable. The pollutants can be either technological substitutes or complements. Environmental damage is…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-24 // 2005

    Sparzwang und Kriminalitätsrisiko: Gibt es Zusammenhänge?

    Der nachhaltige Sparzwang in Zeiten leerer öffentlicher Kassen wird auch zu Einbußen im Bereich der Kriminalprävention führen, insbesondere im Bereich der Jugend- und der Jugendgerichtshilfe. Die Folgen…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-22 // 2005

    Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

    This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-21 // 2005

    Identifying Effect Heterogeneity to Improve the Effiency of Job Creation Schemes in Germany?

    Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average e®ects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-20 // 2005

    Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany

    In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional…

  11. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-19 // 2005

    Impure Public Goods and Technological Interdependencies

    Impure public goods represent an important group of goods. Almost every public good exerts not only effects which are public to all but also effects which are private to the producer of this good. What is…

  12. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 05-18 // 2005

    Poor Background or Low Returns? Why Immigrant Students in Germany Perform so Poorly in PISA

    Student performance of Germans and immigrants differed greatly in the 2000 PISA study. This paper analyses why the two groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production…