Jan Philip Fritsche has successfully defended his dissertation "Macroeconomic Policy under Uncertainty and Inequality" supervised by Marcel Fratzscher (1st supervisor) and Lukas Menkhoff (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
Jana Hamdan has successfully defended her dissertation "Essays on the Impact of Behavioral Aspects and Education for Financial Development" supervised by Lukas Menkhoff (1st supervisor) and Georg Weizsäcker (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!
Björn Fischer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on pension and Long-Term Care Policy" supervised by Peter Haan (1st supervisor) Freie Universität Berlin. He has since then taken on a position as post-doctoral researcher at the ZEW in Mannheim. Congratulations!
While there is a broad consensus in the literature that stock ownership is associated with individual characteristics, such as wealth, income, risk preferences, and financial literacy, less is known about the dynamics of stock market participation (SMP). Major fluctuations in SMP are oftentimes related to political events, economic shocks, and technological disruptions. We discuss the literature that ...
Industrialized countries and emerging economies must cooperate in order to decarbonize the emissions-intensive industrial sector and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While Germany and the other G7 countries have committed to supporting emerging economies in their efforts to combat climate change via international climate finance, it remains to be seen how this support can be implemented ...
Seit September 2021 besteht die Möglichkeit, SOEP-Daten mit administrativen Daten der Deutschen Rentenversicherung zu verknüpfen. Der Datensatz Versichertenrentenbestand (RTBN) liegt im Querschnittsformat für die Befragungsjahre 2018 und 2020 vor. Er beinhaltet neben soziodemographischen Informationen insbesondere Angaben über rentenrechtliche Tatbestände wie z.B. Rentenhöhe ...
In Germany, health needs of citizens and ordinary residents are taken care of under the scope of statutory social and health insurance. The asylum-seeking population, however, receives healthcare through a parallel system, where decisions on provision of health services are not met at a central health governance level, but rather at federal state and sometimes at municipal...
This paper aims to investigate whether Van Parijs' theory of Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) can address the criticism of the lack of individual responsibility on the part of recipients. To do so, I relate this UBI theory to the results of field experiments that study the impact of UBI on employment. Theoretical and empirical results suggest that the UBI does not lead to a decrease in labor...
Using recently published U.S. long-run microdata (SCF+), we document that — for people born in the first half of the 20th century — median wealth used to increase from one ten-year birth cohort to another. For people born in the second half, median wealth successively declined from cohort to cohort and wealth inequality within birth cohorts has markedly increased. Shifts in...
