Elke Holst ist Pionierin der Genderforschung am DIW Berlin. In einer neuen Folge des DIW-Podcasts Wirtschaft bewegt – 100 Jahre DIW Berlin spricht Holst, die 32 Jahre am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin tätig war und maßgeblich den Forschungsbereich Gender Studies etablierte, über Geschlechterungleichheiten in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, über das von ihr mitentwickelten Mangerinnen-Barometer ...
We construct a narrative instrument for government investment from official records in Germany. Using structural vector autoregressions, we document a significant crowding-in of private investment and an output multiplier of roughly 2. Then, we match a New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to the empirical responses, and we decompose the multiplier into three channels. Public investment ...
In conventional proxy VAR analysis, the shocks of interest are identified by external instruments. This is typically accomplished by considering the covariance of the instruments and the reduced-form residuals. Alternatively, the instruments may be internalized by augmenting the VAR process by the instruments or proxies. These alternative identification methods are compared and it is shown that the ...
Policies that affect the cost of using fossil fuels in production have a complex impact on the economy. In this paper, we focus on the role of these policies for the pattern of comparative advantage through their effect on production costs in manufacturing industries. Using data on carbon prices and fossil fuel subsidies, we show that less stringent carbon pricing policies increase comparative advantage ...
Sweden is at the forefront of the transition of its energy sector to low-carbon technologies with profound consequences for both energy generation and its distribution. However, the impact of this transition on the performance of Electricity Distribution System Operators (DSOs) has not been thoroughly studied. The article addresses this gap by using a novel approach and detailed georeferenced firm-level, ...
Die Interessen der jungen Generation spielen in den Wahlprogrammen kaum eine Rolle. Kinderrechte müssen gestärkt werden – auch im Grundgesetz. "Die Welt gehört in Kinderhände … Kinder an die Macht", schrieb Herbert Grönemeyer im Jahr 1986. Heute sind unsere Kinder weiter von Macht und politischer Teilhabe entfernt als je zuvor in den letzten 75 Jahren. Dabei wäre die Welt ein ganzes Stück besser, wenn ...
