Heike Schweitzer, one of the panelists invited to speak at the conference, died suddenly a few days before the conference on June 11. The academic world has lost a brilliant legal scholar and intellectual leader in competition law. Our thoughts are with her family and friends. Imagine there is a conference in Berlin on June 14, 2004 and you have been invited. The invitation arrives in the mail....
Background: The utilisation of outpatient dental services is an important indicator for monitoring healthcare provision in Germany. In the general population, the 12-month prevalence of dental service utilization is 82.2%. For refugees, this indicator has hardly been measured, although studies suggest an objectively high need for dental care. Methodology: As part of the population-based cross-sectional ...
Das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) hat ein digitales Kondolenzbuch für seinen ehemaligen Vorstandsvorsitzenden und langjährigen Leiter des Sozio-oekonomischen Panel, Gert G. Wagner, eingericht. Gert G. Wagner verstarb am 28. Januar 2024 im Alter von 71 Jahren. Das Kondolenzbuch ist bis zum 28. Februar geöffnet sein und ist unter folgendem Link zu finden.
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount of money raised per pitch. We examine heterogeneity in the average amount raised per pitch that is associated ...
Robin Sogalla, Ph.D. Student of the Firms and Markets Department, received the Best Conference Paper Award 2024 at the 16th FIW Research Conference 'International Economics' in Vienna for his paper "Unilateral Climate Policy and Heterogeneous Firms". The award is worth 1,000 euros. Congratulations!
We propose a test for time-varying impulse responses in heteroskedastic structural vector autoregressions that can be used when the shocks are identified by external proxy variables as a group but not necessarily individually. The test is robust to the identification scheme for identifying the shocks individually and can be used even if the shocks are not identified individually. The asymptotic analysis ...
