The tremendous growth of digital transactions – mainly through online platforms - is profoundly affecting the way we interact and opening vast opportunities to improve our lives. Consumers are benefiting from an unprecedented proliferation of new services and products that previously were too costly to be developed and marketed to customers. At the same time, the characteristics of platform...
Denken in nationalen oder nur europäischen Scheuklappen wird uns bei der Bewältigung der Corona-Pandemie oder der Klimakrise nicht helfen. Im Gegenteil, es rächt sich. Dieser Text erschien erstmals am 25. März 2021 in der Zeit Online-Kolumne Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen. Die Empörung in Deutschland ist groß, dass einige wenige Länder deutlich schneller bei den Impfungen ...
During the first coronavirus lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, treatment cases of children in outpatient care declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies in Germany shows, there were significantly fewer physical diseases, such as infections, diagnosed in one to 12-year-old children in the second quarter of 2020 compared ...
A major challenge for proxy vector autoregressive analysis is the construction of a suitable external instrument variable or proxy for identifying a shock of interest. Some authors construct sophisticated proxies that account for the dating and size of the shock while other authors consider simpler versions that use only the dating and signs of particular shocks. It is shown that such qualitative (sign-)proxies ...
Das Kuratorium des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) hat die Bahnvorständin Sigrid Nikutta zu seiner neuen Vorsitzenden gewählt. Nikutta löst Axel Weber ab, der den Vorsitz nach gut fünf Jahren wie angekündigt abgibt. „Ich freue mich sehr über die Berufung in das Kuratorium des renommierten DIW Berlin“, sagte Nikutta. „Das ...
In view of the current developments regarding Covid-19/Coronavirus-infection in Berlin, all staff members reduce their presence in the Institute's building to an absolute minimum. Thanks to our IT Department, everybody can be reached via email as well as via the usual landline and mobile telephone numbers. For media representatives, the staff from our press office can also be contacted via ...
Die MitarbeiterInnen des DIW Berlin sind angehalten, von zu Hause aus zu arbeiten und Präsenztreffen am Institut auf das absolute Mindestmaß zu beschränken. Die IT hat es ermöglicht, dass alle über E-Mail und die gewohnten Festnetz- und Mobil-Telefonnummern erreichbar sind. Für MedienvertreterInnen sind die MitarbeiterInnen der Pressestelle zudem über das zentrale ...
Many people are suffering from the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Refugees, however, belong to one of the underpriviliged groups in many areas of society. They are more likely than average to live in overcrowded living quarters such as community housing and are thus exposed to a higher risk of infection. At the same time, even before the pandemic, they were more likely than average to experience ...
