Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat sich im laufenden Jahr stabilisiert und blickt einem finanzpolitisch gestützten Aufschwung ab dem kommenden Jahr entgegen. Bereits seit dem Herbst liefert vor allem eine Ausweitung der öffentlichen Nachfrage wichtige konjunkturelle Impulse. Die Privatwirtschaft entwickelt sich dagegen bislang verhaltener. Globale handelspolitische Unsicherheiten, hohe Produktionskosten und ...
On December 8, 2025, DIW Berlin co-hosted the conference on the heat transition organized by the accompanying research BEWEGT on the EUREF campus. The conference brought together numerous contributions from political and social sciences and clearly showed how diverse social science research on the heating transition has become. The focus was on questions that are crucial for the success of the heating ...
Das DIW Berlin war am 8. Dezember 2025 als Mitveranstalter an der von der Begleitforschung BEWEGT organisierten Tagung zur Wärmewende am EUREF-Campus beteiligt. Die Tagung brachte zahlreiche Beiträge aus Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften zusammen und zeigte deutlich, wie vielfältig die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung zur Wärmewende inzwischen ist. Im Zentrum standen Fragen, die für das Gelingen ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
