Die neueste Ausgabe des Newsletters "Bildung und Familie @ DIW Berlin" ist erschienen, dieses Mal mit dem Schwerpunktthema Zentren für Familien. Darüber hinaus gibt es unter anderem neue Publikationen und ein spannendes Interview mit Mathias Huebener, in dem er unter anderem über nichtmonetäre Bildungserträge spricht. Und: Ein prominenter Gast am DIW Berlin - schauen Sie einfach ...
If the present behavior of forward-looking economic agents is driven by their expectations about the future, can governments influence the economy by creating expectations? We study this question in the context of one of the most consequential macroeconomic success stories of the 20th century that has, to date, defied the explanations advanced within the literature: the recovery of the German...
The objective of the project is to analyze the effects of long enduring low interest rates on household investment behavior, setting a special focus on the stock market participation of German and US households. In particular, we address four questions within the project. Did the low interest rate environment induced more households to enter the stock market? How does a low interest rate...
The aim of this project is to estimate the impact of monetary policy on structural reforms in the euro area. We first identify exogenous ECB policy changes through an event study that extracts the unexpected variation in euro area interest rates on policy announcement days. We estimate then the effect of monetary policy shocks on the number of reforms and investigate whether the effect is stronger...
After being commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Finance, researchers at DIW Berlin and the ifo Institute prepare short-term expert reports and analyses on national, European and international financial, tax and fiscal policy issues.
Nach Beauftragung durch das Bundesministerium für Finanzen (BMF) erstellen Wissenschaftler*innen am DIW Berlin und am ifo Institut kurzfristige Expertisen und Analysen zu Themen der nationalen, europäischen sowie der internationalen Finanz-, Steuer- und Fiskalpolitik.
Conceptual and organizational planning and implementation of workshops on current financial and economic policy issues in close coordination with staff members at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF).
Hans Walter Steinhauer joined the SOEP team on April 1. He will be working in the Survey Methodology and Management research area on sampling, weighting, and imputation. He will support the research area by contributing his experience from work on the National Educational Panel (NEPS) and other studies of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). Hans holds a doctorate in survey statistics. ...
