Wie verändert die Coronakrise unseren Alltag? Und wie wirkt sich die Pandemie auf Einzelne und die Gesellschaft aus? Antworten auf diese Fragen findet die Studie „Sozio-ökonomische Faktoren und Folgen der Verbreitung des Coronavirus in Deutschland (SOEP-CoV)“, ein Verbundprojekt zwischen dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) am DIW Berlin und der Universität Bielefeld. F...
A two-sector incomplete markets model with heterogeneous agents can be used to study the distributional effects of the COVID-19 lockdown. While negative aggregate welfare effects of the lockdown are unavoidable, the size of aggregate welfare effects as well as the distribution of the welfare effects across agents turn out to depend on the specific economic environment of the affected economy as well ...
The spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, poses major challenges for individuals and societies at large. The question now is how individuals and society are dealing with these challenges, and what health, psychological, social, and economic effects they will have to bear. Meaningful answers can only be provided using a generalizable database that contains contextual information such as family ...
We congratulate Nils Handler, PhD student in the GC class of 2019, for the award. From October 2020, the Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft will finance his PhD.
Wir gratulieren Nils Handler, Doktorand im GC-Jahrgang von 2019, zu der Auszeichnung. Ab Oktober 2020 wird die Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft seine Promotion finanzieren.
Greece cannot take on another decade of slow economic progress. Professor Alexander S. Kritikos in this article points out that the current economic break, as terrible as it also is for all economic life, is a second chance for Greece. Now is the time to break up structures and put the country on a new economic foundation. To make Greece more competitive and innovative, not only are investments needed ...
