The Graduate Center warmly invites all DIW members to attend its annual Graduation Ceremony, which will be on December 1st at the Ostrom Hall. In 2022 nine doctoral students successfully defended their thesis. At the Ceremony, Prof. Guntram Wolff will give a commencement address. The ceremony will be accompanied by Benedikt Bindewald (violine) und Ivo Kanivo (piano).
Start of the next application period for our PhD programm (cohort starting in 2023) began on November 14, 2022. The deadline is February 12, 2023. We look forward to your application! Apply here!
For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3 billion euros in 2019, despite the fact that fewer individuals donated and the donation rate was lower (46.8 ...
Spendenvolumen in Deutschland ist 2019 auf mehr als zehn Milliarden Euro gestiegen – Die einkommensstärksten zehn Prozent der Haushalte trugen 37 Prozent zum Spendenaufkommen bei – Relativ zum verfügbaren Einkommen spendeten einkommensstarke Haushalte aber deutlich weniger als einkommensschwache Haushalte Arme Haushalte sind relativ zum verfügbaren Einkommen spendabler als reiche: Zwar spendeten ...
Die regelmäßige Haushaltsbefragung des SOEP zum Spendenverhalten hat sich im Jahr 2020 erstmals auch an eine Zufallsstichprobe von Hochvermögenden gerichtet, die im Jahr zuvor in das SOEP aufgenommen wurden. Bei Einbeziehung der Hochvermögenden erhöht sich das private Spendenvolumen im Berichtsjahr 2019 von 9,7 auf 10,3 Milliarden Euro, obwohl insgesamt weniger Menschen spenden als im Jahr 2017 und ...
Lukas Boer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays in International Finance, Energy Economics, and Applied Times Series Econometrics" supervised by Lukas Menkhoff (1st supervisor) and by Michael Burda (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!
Jan Malek has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on Competition and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry” supervised by Jo Seldeslachts (1st supervisor) at KU Leuven and has now begun working for E.CA Economics in Berlin. Congratulations!
Tobias König has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on the Role of Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics" supervised by Michael Burda (1st supervisor) and Alexander Kriwoluzky (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt University Berlin. He has now taken up a post-doc position at the University of Bonn. Congratulations!
