This paper analyzes the local economic impacts of troop deployments. We exploit variation from the historic large-scale US troop withdrawal from Germany triggered by the end of the Cold War, to estimate the…
We investigate whether the local economic effects of niche university actors depend on regional context. Focusing on private university campuses in Germany, we exploit their staggered foundation between 1990 and…
Public procurement is widely regarded as an important instrument to foster innovation. We examine how additional award criteria beyond price relate to firms’ realized innovation performance by combining…
Policy makers increasingly recognize circular public procurement as a demand-pull instrument for stimulating the transition to a circular economy. However, empirical studies on circular public procurement have…
Kinder zu bekommen, führt für viele Mütter zu spürbaren Einkommenseinbußen. In der neuen Background-Folge des ZEW-Podcasts „Wirklich Wirtschaft“ erklärt Dr. Lukas Riedel aus der Forschungsgruppe „Ungleichheit…
