1. ZEW policy brief Nr. 24-13 // 2024

    Towards a More Realistic View on the Market Potential of EU Securitizations

    Ongoing global trends like climate change require firms to invest in projects that support their transformation. In order to unlock the huge sums of private capital necessary for these investments, the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-053 // 2024

    Big Data and Firm-Level Productivity – A Cross-Country Comparison

    Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity is still the subject of controversial debate. Using administrative firm-level data provided…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-054 // 2024

    Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

    Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesize the growing literature that evaluates nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that simple reminders increase the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-052 // 2024

    Early Life Conditions, Time Preferences, and Savings

    This study examines how early-life exposure to food scarcity influences individuals’ long-term time preferences and savings behavior. To this end, we analyze hand-collected historical data on livestock…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-051 // 2024

    Mandated Data-sharing in Hybrid Marketplaces

    We study a hybrid marketplace where a vertically integrated platform competes with a seller in a horizontally differentiated downstream market. The platform has a data advantage and can price discriminate…

  6. ZEW Monthly // 2024

    07/24 — Unternehmensdynamik

    Das Zusammenspiel von Unternehmensgründungen und -schließungen ist ein zentraler Motor für wirtschaftliche Transformation. Vor dem Hintergrund von Herausforderungen wie der Digitalisierung oder…

  7. #ZEWPodcast // 2024

    Was bringt die globale Mindeststeuer für Deutschland?

    Die globale Mindeststeuer ist ein mutiger Versuch, Steuervermeidung sowie internationalen Steuerwettbewerb in die Schranken zu weisen und seit Januar 2024 Realität. Allerdings wurde sie bisher nur in der EU…