We are excited to welcome the new 2024 cohort of PhD students, with some joining through the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE) and others directly through our program. All of them will conduct their research at DIW Berlin, marking the start of their academic journey with us. We wish them all the best as they embark on the path toward earning their doctorates and look forward to supporting their research ...
On December 5, the Institute and DIW GC celebrated the graduation of 15 of our graduates with a festive ceremony. After an opening speech by Marcel Fratzscher and an inspiring speech by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth, Helmut Lütkepohl was also bid farewell to his well-deserved retirement. The Executive Board and Kerstin Bernoth thanked him warmly for his important work in doctoral training and at the GC. ...
This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers (i.e., inter-vivo gifts and inheritances) contribute to social stratification in the transition to homeownership. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N=13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers are less likely to ...
Das DIW Berlin berechnet jährlich auf Basis von Daten des Immobiliendienstleisters ista den temperaturbereinigten Heizenergiebedarf, die Heizenergiepreise und die Heizausgaben in privaten Zwei- und Mehrparteienhäusern in Deutschland. Grundlage der Berechnungen sind gebäudespezifische Heizkostenabrechnungen von knapp 300 000 Zwei- und Mehrparteienhäusern (über 2 Millionen Wohnungen), klimabezogene Gewichtungsfaktoren ...
With nuclear reactor fleets continuously aging, the decommissioning of closed reactors is gaining increasing attention. In nuclear decommissioning, technical, organizational, and regulatory challenges lead to long project durations and cost escalations. This paper attempts to examine the organizational efficiencies in nuclear decommissioning by applying the framework of the "system good" analysis and ...
Das Statistische Bundesamt hat heute bekannt gegeben, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft im dritten Quartal um 0,2 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorquartal gewachsen ist. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Jan-Christopher Scherer, Konjunkturexperte und Leiter der Prognose für die deutsche Wirtschaft im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
