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Die Folgen eines harten Brexits für die deutsche Wirtschaft werden häufig überschätzt

DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die Ablehnung des Brexit-Abkommens durch das britische Unterhaus:

Towards OSGeo Best Practices for Scientific Software Citation: Integration Options for Persistent Identifiers in OSGeo Project Repositories

As a contribution to the currently ongoing larger effort to establish Open Science as best practices in academia, this article focuses on the Open Source and Open Access tiers of the Open Science triad and community software projects. The current situation of research software development and the need to recognize it as a significant contribution to science is introduced in relation to Open Science. ...

"Griechenland hat Jahre verloren"

Trotz Hilfspaketen und Reformversprechen: Griechenlands Wirtschaft gleicht noch immer einem wackeligen Kartenhaus. Wie sich die Bilder wiederholen: Ende 2014 besuchte Kanzlerin Merkel ihren griechischen Kollegen Samaras, beglückwünschte ihn zur Beendigung der griechischen Krise und würdigte die Anstrengungen des griechischen Volkes. Anfang 2019: Merkel besucht Tsipras, beglückwünscht ...

How Do Households Allocate Risk?

Individuals often have to decide to which degree of risk they want to expose others, or how much risk to accept if their choice has an externality on third parties. One typical application is a household. We run an experiment in the German Socio-Economic Panel with two members from 494 households. Participants have a good estimate of each other’s risk preferences, even if not explicitly informed. They ...

Do Justice Perceptions Support the Concept of Equal Sacrifice? Evidence from Germany

The ability-to-pay approach assesses taxes paid as a sacrifice by the taxpayers. This raises the question of how to define and how to measure it: in absolute, relative, or marginal terms? U.S. respondents prefer a tax schedule that is either a pure (absolute) Equal Sacrifice or a mixture of Equal Sacrifice and Utilitarianism [Weinzierl, 2014]. To determine whether Germans prefer absolute, relative, ...

Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant spillovers from maternal education to immigration ...

The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP,we evaluate the effect of work-related training, which represents the largest portion of adult education in OECD countries, ...

Identifying Uncertainty Shocks Using the Price of Gold

We are very grateful to two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article. We are also grateful to seminar participants at the Bank of Italy, Free University of Berlin, University of Naples, Humboldt University of Berlin, IAAE 2016 (Milan), 7th Ifo Conference 2016 (Munich) and EEA 2016 (Geneva), as well as to Rudi Bachmann, Christoph Große Steffen, Michael ...

Freiheit und Gleichheit

Open Power System Data – Frictionless Data for Electricity System Modelling

The quality of electricity system modelling heavily depends on the input data used. Although a lot of data is publicly available, it is often dispersed, tedious to process and partly contains errors. We argue that a central provision of input data for modelling has the character of a public good: it reduces overall societal costs for quantitative energy research as redundant work is avoided, and it ...