Der Arbeitskreis Steuerschätzung hat heute seine Prognose für das laufende und die folgenden Jahre vorgelegt. Sie zeigen einen massiven Einbruch der Einnahmen. DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die Prognose wie folgt:
This paper analyzes the causal relationship between institutional diversity in domestic banking sectors and bank stability. We use a large bank- and country-level unbalanced panel data set covering the EU member states’ banking sectors between 1998 and 2014. Constructing two distinct indicators for measuring institutional diversity, we find that a high degree of institutional diversity in the domestic ...
Anlässlich des morgigen Internationalen Tages der Familie spricht sich C. Katharina Spieß, Leiterin der Abteilung Bildung und Familie am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), für eine umfassende Unterstützung von Familien aus:
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children’s fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We exploit eligibility ages for early retirement ...
We study the impact of the business cycle on mental wellbeing by linking rich German survey data to over a decade of detailed gross domestic product information. Endogeneity concerns are tackled using a shift-share instrumental variables approach in which exposure to macroeconomic fluctuations is estimated from regional variations in historical industry sector composition. Estimation results reveal ...
