Ein ereignisreiches Jahr 2025 neigt sich dem Ende zu – ein Jahr, das die wirtschaftspolitische Landschaft Europas und darüber hinaus in Bewegung gehalten hat wie kaum eines zuvor. Die politischen Verschiebungen…
In der ersten Ausgabe von Wirklich Wirtschaft blickt ZEW-Präsident Prof. Achim Wambach, PhD auf das Jahr 2025 zurück und bewertet die aktuelle Lage. Er geht auf die turbulenten Debatten rund um Trumps…
Rising political polarization generates significant negative externalities for democratic institutions and economic stability, yet scalable interventions to reduce polarization remain scarce. In this paper, I…
The advantages of adaptive experiments have led to their rapid adoption in economics, other fields, as well as among practitioners. However, adaptive experiments pose challenges for causal inference. This note…
We investigate whether firms engage in VAT evasion at the retail stage—typically a point of weakness in VAT systems—in a high-enforcement, low-informality setting. To measure evasion, we exploit a reform of VAT…
How do retirees choose among home equity release products? Despite housing wealth being households’ largest asset, little is known about preferences for different equity release products. We conduct a survey…
We analyze the continuing role of prior technical experience of top-management team (TMT) members for opportunity recognition beyond the initial market entry choice in young ventures. We are drawing on and…
The concept of Open Innovation (OI) has breathed new life into both empirical research and industry practice concerned with distributed and collaborative modes of innovating. While much of the empirical…
