Damit die EU ihre Klima- und Energieziele für 2030 erfüllt, hat die Europäische Kommission einen neuen Weg eingeschlagen: Alle Mitgliedstaaten sollen im Jahr 2018 umfassende Energie- und Klimapläne für die Dekade 2020 bis 2030 erarbeiten. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt sollen außerdem langfristige Dekarbonisierungsstrategien entwickelt werden. Die Gesetzesgrundlage...
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. Previous Europe Lectures have been held by Mario Draghi, Barry Eichengreen and Lawrence H. Summers. Following an...
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 ...
Zu den von US-Präsident Donald Trump angekündigten Strafzöllen auf Stahl- und Aluminiumimporte äußert sich DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher wie folgt:
Working time preferences of employees have been discussed in scientific and public debates more frequently. Yet, representative studies show controversial results regarding over- and underemployment for Germany. But these differences can only partially be explained by varying definitions of populations or sample selection. By means of data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) this article highlights ...
