1. 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…
  2. 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…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Framing effects in consumer expectations surveys

    In a randomized survey experiment, I test how variations in question wording and format influence response behavior. Participants from a representative sample in Germany are divided into four groups, each…

  4. 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…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-014 // 2025

    Founder Personality and Scaling Decisions in Entrepreneurial Firms

    Personality drives human decision-making. Research on corporate research and development(R&D), however, typically considers strategic decision-making to be independent of the decisionmaker’s personality traits.…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-016 // 2025

    Skills, Job Application Strategies, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence From Online Freelancing

    This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women…