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 ...
This paper studies how firms’ CO2 emission intensity (CEI) responds to trade shocks. I develop a unified framework that decomposes within-firm changes in CEI into three components: shifts in (i) the product portfolio, (ii) factor-neutral physical productivity (TFPQ), and (iii) CO2-abatement technology, defined as factor-augmenting productivity that reduces emissions relative to other inputs. The...
This paper provides novel evidence of patent-induced shocks on firm survival, growth, and productivity, and how innovation shocks impact worker compensation and employment prospects. Using linked employer-employee data with newly linked German firm data and web-scraped patent documents, we leverage quasi-random assignment of patent applications to examiners. Patent allowance reduces market exit...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
