1. ZEW-Newsletter // 2018

    2018-12

    1. Aktuell
    2. Call for Papers
      • ZEW-Konferenz Public Finance 2019: The Political Economy of European (Dis)Integration
      • Achte Mannheim Energy Conference
      • Neunte Competition and Innovation Summer School (CISS)
  2. Analysen und Standpunkte // 2018

    2018

    • Digitalisierung
    • Europa
    • Märkte, Wettbewerb und Marktdesign
    • Buchauszug „Digitaler Wohlstand für Alle"
  3. ZEW policy brief Nr. 18-08 // 2018

    Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten – eine Herausforderung vor Ort

    Im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis finden sich vielfältige Akteure und Netzwerke, die die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten unterstützen. Auch wenn die konkreten Maßnahmen zur Arbeitsmarktintegration, die sich hier…

  4. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2018

    Dezember 2018

    • Konjunkturerwartungen für China steigen, bleiben aber stark negativ
    • An der Dezember-Umfrage des China Economic Panel vom 28.11.–13.12.2018 beteiligten sich 22 Analysten
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-057 // 2018

    Effects of Attribute-Based Regulation on Technology Adoption – The Case of Feed-In Tariffs for Solar Photovoltaic

    Feed-in tariffs are a widespread policy instrument to support the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. I investigate the impact of the size-based differentiation of these tariffs on the adoption of…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-056 // 2018

    Endogenous Worst-Case Beliefs in First-Price Auctions

    Bidding in first-price auctions crucially depends on the beliefs of the bidders about their competitors' willingness to pay. We analyze bidding behavior in a first-price auction in which the knowledge of…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-055 // 2018

    Strategies under Strategic Uncertainty

    I investigate the decision problem of a player in a game of incomplete information who faces uncertainty about the other players' strategies. I propose a new decision criterion which works in two steps.…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-054 // 2018

    Contract Design with Limited Commitment

    We consider the problem of a principal who wishes to contract with a privately informed agent and is not able to commit to not renegotiating any mechanism. That is, we allow the principal, after observing…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-053 // 2018

    Fair Cake-Cutting in Practice

    Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free…

  10. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-052 // 2018

    Multi-Unit Assignment Under Dichotomous Preferences

    I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable…