The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture series by leading policy-makers and academics on the future of Europe. The series aims at fostering and informing the debate on key European policy issues, and at bringing this debate to the heart of Germany's policy-making in Berlin. Following an outstanding private sector career in which she had served as the first Chairwoman of the international law...
Förderinstrument der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft positiv evaluiert – Berliner Campus war einer von drei bewerteten Fallstudien Gerade einmal drei Jahre alt ist das Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP), das im Juni 2015 aus einer Kooperation zwischen den beiden Leibniz-Instituten DIW Berlin und Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), den drei Berliner Universitäten ...
Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and ...
We propose a new instrument to identify uncertainty shocks in a SVAR model with external instruments. The instrument is constructed by exploiting variations in the price of gold around events that capture periods of changes in uncertainty. The variations in the price of gold around the events correlate with the underlying uncertainty shocks, due to the perception of gold as a safe haven asset. To control ...
The global energy system is undergoing a major transition, and in energy planning and decision-making across governments, industry and academia, models play a crucial role. Because of their policy relevance and contested nature, the transparency and open availability of energy models and data are of particular importance. Here we provide a practical how-to guide based on the collective experience of ...
The central limit theorem says that, provided an estimator fulfills certain weak conditions, then, for reasonable sample sizes, the sampling distribution of the estimator converges to normality. We propose a procedure to find out what a “reasonably large sample size” is. The procedure is based on the properties of Gini's mean difference decomposition. We show the results of implementations of the procedure ...
Automatismus in der Rentenanpassungsformel führt zu pauschalen Rentenkürzungen – Abschläge sind wesentlich schonender – Für gesundheitlich beeinträchtigte Personen sollten Sonderregelungen gelten Wer vor dem gesetzlichen Renteneintrittsalter in Rente geht, muss Abschläge zahlen. Die Höhe der Abschläge wird politisch festgelegt und kann ein Instrument ...
