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„Die Parteien trauen den Wählerinnen und Wählern nicht die Wahrheit zu“

Ökonom Marcel Fratzscher zeigt sich schockiert über unlautere Wahlversprechen. Milliardenschwere Steuerentlastungen hält er für unrealistisch. Was ihm in der aktuellen Lage trotzdem Hoffnung macht. Herr Fratzscher, die schlechten Nachrichten aus der Wirtschaft reißen nicht ab. VW steckt in der Krise, die Insolvenzen steigen bedenklich, der Ausblick ist trüb. Gibt es etwas, das Ihnen als Ökonom Hoffnung ...

The Impact of Student Aid Eligibility on Higher Education Applications

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students’ applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming male students shifted their First-Ranked ...

Common Ownership and Market Entry: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Common ownership - where several firms are (partially) owned by the same investors - and its impact on product market competition has recently drawn much attention. This paper focuses on its implications for market entry. We consider the entry decisions of generic pharmaceutical firms into drug markets that are opened up by the end of regulatory protection and which were previously dominated by a single ...

Der Schweinepreiszyklus oder wie die Konjunkturforschung den Landwirten hilft: 100 Jahre DIW Berlin

Der Schweinezyklus beschreibt das Problem der Zeitverzögerung bei der Anpassung des Angebots auf einem Markt. Der Begriff geht auf den früheren DIW-Ökonomen Arthur Hanau (1902-1985) und dessen Dissertation „Die Prognose der Schweinepreise“ zurück, die er im Jahr 1928 im Vierteljahrsheft zur Konjunkturforschung veröffentlichte – damals hieß das DIW Berlin noch Institut für Konjunkturforschung.

The 20th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant and intellectually lively...

The Gender Gap in Fair Earnings: The Effect of Male and Female Supervisors

Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...

Personality in the Classroom: Interactions of Parental SES and Students’ Big Five in Predicting School Performance

While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...

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Economic Insecurity: Trade Dependencies and Their Weaponization in History

Do trade dependencies leave countries vulnerable to geopolitical coercion? We study the economic costs of trade and financial sanctions, from 1920 to the present. We first develop a continuous measure of sanction intensity, using bilateral commodity-level data to calculate the importance of specific flows that fall under sanctions. We find that sanctions inflict relatively small costs on average: sanctioning ...

Hegemonic Globalization

How do shifts in the global balance of power shape the world economy? We propose a theory of alignment-based “hegemonic globalization,” built on two central premises: countries differ in their preferences over policies (such as the rule of law or regulatory frameworks) and trade between any two countries increases with the degree of alignment in these policies. Hegemons promote policy alignment and ...