1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-005 // 2025

    Organized Labor Versus Robots? Evidence From Microdata

    New technologies drive productivity growth, yet the distribution of gains may be unequal. We study how labor market institutions – specifically shop-floor worker representation – mediate the impact of…

  2. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    03/2025 – Finanzpolitik

    Eine kluge Finanzpolitik ist ein zentrales Element der Wirtschaftspolitik und beeinflusst über Steuern und Staatsausgaben die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Landes. Globale Herausforderungen wie Digitalisierung,…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation.
    On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. In the case of Denmark, the
    country with the…

  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    März 2025

    • Erwartungen kräftig angestiegen, Lage bleibt stabil
    • Eurozone: Wirtschaftsausblick verbessert sich bei steigenden Inflationserwartungen
    • China: Steigende Unsicherheit über Inflation und Konjunktur
    • Aktien und…
  5. ZEW policy brief Nr. 25-04 // 2025

    Financing the Green Transition: The Role of Private Capital

    The greening of the European economy will require large amounts of capital to flow into green projects. As the public sector alone will not be able to achieve this, European capital markets and the European…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-015 // 2025

    Competition Among Digital Services: Evidence From the 2021 Meta Outage

    On October 4, 2021, all services provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (then Facebook, Inc.) became unavailable unexpectedly for all its worldwide users for a period of about six hours. We use detailed high‐frequency…