In the project, calculations are to be carried out on the return on different forms of old-age provision for three types of individuals: low earners, average earners and high earners. A distinction is made between calculations for the statutory pension insurance (GRV) and for company pensions (BAV). The main aim is to show how different legal regulations in the GRV and BAV that will be effective...
Wir gratulieren Nils Handler, Doktorand im GC-Jahrgang von 2019, zu der Auszeichnung. Ab Oktober 2020 wird die Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft seine Promotion finanzieren.
Mit Hilfe von Mobile Money können Finanztransaktionen über ein Handy getätigt werden. Auch in armen Gegenden Afrikas besitzt fast jeder ein Mobiltelefon. Mobile Money könnte dafür sorgen, dass niemand mehr von Finanzdienstleistungen ausgeschlossen bleibt, und so zum wirtschaftlichen Wachs-tum des Kontinents beitragen. Tatsächlich zeigen vom DIW Berlin erhobene Daten aus Afrika, dass Mobile Money weniger ...
This paper summarises the output of a Nuffield-funded research project exploring inequalities in three aspects of children’s experience in early education in England. The main focus of the project was on ‘peer effects’ in pre-school settings: we examine the extent of clustering by income and language background and explore associations between pre-school peer group and children’s outcomes in early ...
The corona pandemic and the political measures undertaken to contain it are changing the working conditions of many people in Germany. Based on data from the first tranche of a supplementary survey (SOEP-Cov) to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study analyzes the effects of the corona crisis on Germany’s working population in 2019. In this paper, we investigate how severely people have ...
This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in markets dominated by multisided digital platforms. First, we document almost 300 acquisitions carried out by three major tech companies—Amazon, Facebook, and Google—between 2008 and 2018. We cluster target companies on their area of economic activity providing suggestive evidence on the strategies behind these mergers. ...
We present an ex-post analysis of the effects of GDF's acquisition of Suez in 2006, which created one of the world's largest energy companies. We perform a series of econometric analyses on the market for trading at the Zeebrugge gas hub in Belgium. Removing barriers to entry and facilitating access to the hub through ownership unbundling were an important part of the objectives of the remedies imposed ...
