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Essays in International Finance, Energy Economics, and Applied Time Series Econometrics

Diese Dissertation beantwortet verschiedene politikrelevante ökonomische Fragen in den Bereichen Handelspolitik, Geldpolitik, sowie Rohstoffmärkte und Energieökonomik mit Hilfe von strukturellen Vektorautoregressionsmodellen (SVAR). SVARs stellen eine effektive Möglichkeit dar, die Beziehungen zwischen verschiedenen makroökonomischen und/oder Finanzmarkt-Variablen zu modellieren und werden verwendet, ...

Migrants’ Missing Votes

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also selfselected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties in Poland that have experienced ...

Parent-Child Mismatches in Educational Aspirations: Prevalence, Stability, and Convergence over Time

Parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations may negatively affect child development. We examine (1) the prevalence of mismatching aspirations across school grades 3–9 (ages 8–15), (2) their stability over time, and (3) whether mismatching aspirations converge to parents’ or to children’s aspirations. We use data from two German National Educational Panel Study cohorts (“kindergarten”: N=4,217, ...

Structural Change in Germany: Challenges for Growth and Productivity

Germany is at the onset of a profound structural change that will have a lasting impact on the dynamics of productivity and economic growth. Global megatrends such as changes in international trade, digitalisation, decarbonisation and demographic change will accelerate structural change and have far-reaching consequences for productivity growth, the international competitiveness of the German economy ...

Strukturwandel in den Regionen: Was sich ändert und wie die Politik reagieren sollte

In Germany, the structural shift away from industry has long been much slower than in other similarly developed countries. Now, it is increasingly being shaped by global megatrends such as digitisation, decarbonisation, demographic change and changing international economic relations. There are significant regional differences in the adaptation processes: urban areas benefit from inno¬vation density ...

Data Report: Online Survey on LGBTQI* People in Germany: Second Wave ; Version: 1.0, January 2023

Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Escape, Arrival and Everyday Life

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), the Re¬search Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) surveyed 11,225 Ukrainian refugees between August and October 2022. The survey can be projected to the population of Ukrainian refugees ...

Zwölf-Punkte-Kompass zur Überwindung der deutschen Wachstumsschwäche

Die Projektgruppe Gemeinschaftsdiagnose prognostiziert für das Jahr 2025 einen leichten Zuwachs des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in Deutschland um 0,2 %. Im weiteren Prognosezeitraum stimuliert die expansive Finanzpolitik die Konjunktur. Die Institute prognostizieren für die kommenden beiden Jahre Expansionsraten von 1,3 % und 1,4 %. Strukturelle Problemewie abnehmende Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und der demografische ...

SHARE Corona Survey 2 Questionnaire Adaptations

SHARE Wave 9 Questionnaire Adaptations with a Special Focus on the End-of-Life Interview