1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-045 // 2025

    Far-Right Mass Protests and Their Effects on Internal Migration

    We study how far-right mass rallies affect people’s views about a city and thus location choices of nationals. To this end, we first exploit that the city of Dresden (Germany) unexpectedly experienced such…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-044 // 2025

    Congestion Management Games in Electricity Markets

    This paper proposes a game-theoretic model to analyze the strategic behavior of incdec gaming in market-based congestion management (redispatch). We extend existing models by considering incomplete information…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-042 // 2025

    Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: The Multiple Facets of Social Status and the Role of Mothers

    We assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Mobilizing credit for clean energy: De-risking and public loan provision under learning spillovers

    This paper analyzes bank lending behavior toward novel clean energy technologies in the presence of high screening costs and potential learning-by-lending. In a two-period model, bank loans in the first period…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Support for Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind Power

    The rise of societal goals like climate change mitigation and energy security calls for rapid capacity growth in renewable electricity sources, yet citizens’ support is put to a test when such technologies emit…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-039 // 2025

    Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Role of Communication in an Experiment With Procurement Managers

    We investigate how buyer-supplier communication affects procurement prices, comparing auctions without direct communication to negotiations allowing it. In controlled experiments involving students and…

  7. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    August 2025

    • Erwartungen trüben sich nach angekündigtem EU-US-Handelsabkommen ein
    • Eurozone: Spürbarer Rückgang der Konjunkturerwartungen
    • USA: Zinssenkungserwartungen verstärken sich
    • China: Konjunkturlage normalisiert sich
    • Erwart…
  8. ZEW policy brief Nr. 25-08 // 2025

    The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

    China’s patenting activity has surged over the past two decades, yet questions remain about the quality and sources of innovation. We develop a new method to measure the importance of a patent for innovation,…

  9. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2025

    2. Quartal 2025

    • Getrübte Stimmung in der Informationswirtschaft
    • Unternehmen planen keine Abkehr vom Homeoffice