Pauline Affeldt, who works at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Merger Control" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel (Technische Universität Berlin).We ...
Die Expertinnen und Experten der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB) haben für das erste Halbjahr des laufenden Jahres einen leicht rückläufigen Energieverbrauch ermittelt – dieser sank demnach um 1,7 Prozent im Vergleich zu den ersten sechs Monaten des Vorjahres. Insbesondere wurde weniger Stein- und Braunkohle zu Energiezwecken verbraucht. Die Pressemitteilung mit ausführlichen ...
Zum Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgericht über die Bankenunion meint DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher:
The eighth conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) was held in Zagreb, Croatia, from July 15 to 19, 2019. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb. As at previous ESRA conferences, a number of SOEP staff members presented their research findings and applications of new survey methods in different SOEP samples, and some chaired ...
The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The authors apply distributional decomposition methods and focus on the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status in this ...
In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. I find that informal elderly care has adverse and persistent effects on labor market outcomes and therefore negatively affects lifetime earnings, future pension benefits, and individuals’ well-being. These consequences of ...
