In mehr als 300 Studien hat das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung seit der Gründung 1925 „seine“ Stadt Berlin untersucht, begleitet und analysiert. Nach dem Krieg sorgten Wissenschaftler dafür, dass Berlin Teil des Marshallplans wurde, während der Blockade berechneten sie die Ladungsmengen der Rosinenbomber, während der deutschen Teilung gingen sie auf Ost-Seite im Konsummarkt auf Datenjagd ...
This paper studies the role of viewers’ heterogeneous ad aversion on media content demand and advertisers’ willingness to pay. High-frequency individual-level data on broadcast media content allows us to track viewers’ minute-by-minute choices within the set of available alternatives. We first illustrate the potential selection biases that arise when using aggregated market-level data to estimate...
Background Perceived social cohesion (PSC) is a protective factor for mental health. Yet, evidence on social mechanisms influencing mental health is scarce. Aims We examined the moderating role of PSC between parental stressors and depressive symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We performed a multilevel moderated linear regression analysis using German Socio-Economic Panel ...
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, ...
Declining labor force participation of older men throughout the 20th century and recent increases in participation have generated substantial interest in understanding the effect of public pensions on retirement. The National Bureau of Economic Research's International Social Security (ISS) Project, a long-term collaboration among researchers in a dozen developed countries, has explored this and related ...
This article outlines income and wealth distribution trends in Germany since the 19th century, compared to other Westernindustrialised countries. We first discuss the evolution of aggregate wealth-to-income ratios. We then explore how the concentration ofincome and wealth among the top percentile evolved since the 19th century. For the period after 1990, we analyse the entire distributionsfrom top ...
This paper provides the _rst time series of the gender earnings ratio for the full-time employed workforce in Germany since the 1870s and compares Ger- many's path with the Swedish and U.S. cases. The industrialization period yielded slow advances in economic gender relations due to women's delayed inclusion in the industrial workforce. The _rst half of the 20th century exhib- ited a marked leap. In ...
