Dr. Zapp is a Senior Policy Officer at the Supervisory Policy Directorate of the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. From August 1998 till July 1999, she was a visiting Ameritech Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies. In her previous position, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany (1994-98) where she earned her doctorate.

Recent publications:

"The Impact of the SBIR on Creating Entrepreneurial Behaviour" (with David B. Audretsch and Jürgen Weigand), Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2002, 32-38

"Does the Small Business Innovation Research Program Foster Entrepreneurial Behavior? Evidence from Indiana" (with David B. Audretsch and Jürgen Weigand), in Charles W. Wessner (ed.): The Small Business Innovation Research Program, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences Press, 2000, 160-193

"Innovation, Raumstruktur und Internationalisierungs-Strategien (Innovation, Spatial Structure and Strategies of Internationalization)" (with David B. Audretsch), in Otto G. Mayer and Hans-Eckart Scharrer (eds.): Internationale Unternehmensstrategien und nationale Standortpolitik, Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999, 129-150

"Der Einfluß der Bankkreditvergabe auf den Unternehmenswettbewerb - Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Finanzierungsprobleme kleiner und neu gegründeter Unternehmen" (Bank Credits, Small Firm Finance, and Product Market Competition), Hamburg: Kovač, 1998