1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-063 // 2025

    Financial Socialization and the Gender Investment Gap

    Women are significantly less likely to participate in the stock market than men. We show that financial socialization plays an important role in explaining this gap. Survey data from Germany and the U.S.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-059 // 2025

    Doubling Down Political Budget Cycles: The Role of State-Owned Enterprises

    We study the degree and nature of political budget cycles in public investments when two instruments are available: investments by core governments and, more indirectly, by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). While…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-062 // 2025

    Intangible Assets and Productivity at the Firm Level: R&D versus non-R&D Intangibles

    Intangible assets have increasingly been identified as a main source of productivity gains. Since the pioneering work by Corrado, Hulten, and Sichel (2005), empirical research has largely focused on macro and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-061 // 2025

    Firms’ Disclosure of University Ties on Their Website: An Explorative Analysis of Ist Role for Innovation Performance

    This paper explores a novel web-based indicator to examine how firms’ disclosure of university ties on their websites shapes their innovation performance. First, using data from the German Community Innovation…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Industriepolitik in Europa

    Die Industriepolitik rückt zunehmend in den Fokus der deutschen und der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik. In diesem Beitrag entwickeln Hanna Hottenrott, Roman Inderst, Eckhard Janeba, Klaus Schmidt, Achim Wambach…