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• Publikationen // 14.11.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Which Start-Ups Win Public Procurement Tenders?

  their foundation, and 65 percent of them won at least one tender. Additionally, younger and more innovative firms tend to apply for and win tenders with functional criteria, while older and less innovative [...] more industry experience, and higher innovation capacities, while start-ups applying for tenders without functional criteria, profit from larger foundation teams, older founders, more industry experience [...] between firms applying for tenders with and without functional criteria. First, we use representative telephone survey data to estimate public procurement applicant and winner shares for the population of
• Publikationen // 22.10.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Industry-Science-Interaction in Innovation: The Role of Transfer Channels and Policy Support

  We investigate the effects of different channels of industry-science collaboration on new product sales at the firm-level and whether government subsidies for collaboration make a difference. We distinguish [...] panel data from the German Community Innovation Survey and a conditional difference-in-differences methodology, we find a positive effect of industry-science collaboration on product innovation success only [...] subsidized collaboration. Our results suggest that government subsidies are required to bring firms and public science into forms of collaboration that are effective in producing higher innovation output
• Publikationen // 19.07.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Product Differentiation and Quality in Production Function Estimation

  quantity and productivity to output quantity. This mapping only generates unbiased estimates if input and output quality variation within and between observation units is accounted for. I review and classify [...] classify state-of-the-art methods to address quality and price variation in production function estimation. Even if inputs and outputs are observed in quantities, unobserved quality variation might bias production [...] variation, I introduce product characteristics to the estimation procedure and provide an application to the European car industry.
• Publikationen // 16.07.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Who Is in the Driver’s Seat? Markups, Markdowns, and Profit Sharing in the Car Industry

  include plant-level prices and employ car characteristics as demand-based quality controls. Between 2002 and 2018,the European car manufacturers’ margins on their input and product markets combined [...] conditions under which the markup and markdown estimates relate to the firms’ equilibrium bargaining weights. To account for vertical and horizontal product differentiation in the production function [...] I develop a general framework for markup and markdown estimation that allows for profit sharing along value chains without making assumptions on conduct between vertically related firms. I derive the
• Publikationen // 16.07.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Mass Customization With Additive Manufacturing: Blessing or Curse for Society

  enables mass customization and has thereby the potential to revolutionize traditional manufacturing. In this paper, we examine how the adoption of AM affects competition and welfare in traditionally s [...] policy implications for the manufacturing industry. We recommend complementary measures of ensuring the competitive environment for firms with AM technology and subsidizing their fixed cost in order to [...] to realize benefits for both consumers and producers.
• Publikationen // 02.04.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Sick Leave and Medical Leave in the United States: A Categorization and Recent Trends

  distribution, and employees in the accommodation and food industry still have no access to paid sick leave benefits. In the last part, we discuss implications of the lack of access to paid sick and medical leave [...] benefits. Moreover, building on international research findings and experiences, we discuss what a possible integration, coordination, and expansion of the co-existing programs could look like. [...] This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick
• Publikationen // 05.01.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Do Climate Policies Lead To Outsourcing? Evidence From Firm-Level Imports

  using firm-level data on energy use, imports, and material purchases. I document that import shares in German industry have increased between 2009 and 2013, and that energy prices correlate positively with [...] very electricityintensive firms; for firms using easily tradable goods; and both for regular importers with a trade network and occasional/non-importers. [...] Rising energy prices might lead to adjustments along the supply chain and make firms outsource energy-intensive processes. This could lead to carbon leakage. I provide empirical evidence whether energy
• Publikationen // 11.10.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - The Value of a Loss: The Impact of Restricting Tax Loss Transfers

  staggered changes to anti-loss trafficking rules in the EU27 Member States, Norway and United Kingdom from 1998 to 2019 and find that limiting the transfer of tax losses reduces the number of M&As by [...] by 18%. The impairment is driven by loss-making targets. Turning to the broader impact on industry dynamics, we find decreases in survival rates of young companies in response to tighter regulations. Some [...] compensated by new firm entrants. We further detect that loosening of regulation spurs firm entry and survival. Finally, tightening (loosening) anti-loss trafficking rules impairs (increases) return on
• Publikationen // 01.10.2023

  Discussion und Working Paper - `Deja vol' revisited: Survey forecasts of macroeconomic variables predict volatility in the cross-section of industry portfolios

  show that forecasts of GDP and industrial production growth from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Professional Forecasters predict volatility in a cross-section of 49 industry portfolios. The expectation [...] volatility depending on the state of the economy and the stance of monetary policy. Forecasts of higher unemployment rates are good news for stocks during expansions and go along with lower stock volatility. Our [...] Our results hold in- as well as out-of-sample and pass various robustness checks.
• Publikationen // 17.07.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Investor Responses to Information Updates on Peer Behavior and Public Investment Policy: The Case of Green Investments

  Green startups are a major driver of eco-innovation and as such a major contributor to climate change mitigation and green growth. However, they often lack sufficient funding from investors. Our study [...] comprising a discrete choice experiment and data from the Mannheim Enterprise Panel. Our findings show that the expectation of future demand for green products and the environmental attitudes of investors [...] in the energy industry. Regarding the effect of information provision, we find that investors strongly respond to information on both investments in green startups by other investors and public investment