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Plädoyer für einen Schuldenschnitt für Deutschlands Kommunen: Kommentar von Marcel Fratzscher

Der Bundestag hat jüngst einer Umstrukturierung der Schulden für Griechenland zugestimmt und damit den Weg frei gemacht für eine letzte Tranche aus dem Hilfspaket und vor allem für Schuldenerleichterungen. Mit diesem Beschluss, der einem Schuldenschnitt gleich kommt, wird die Regierung in Athen wieder handlungsfähig, um nötige Reformen umzusetzen und Eigenverantwortung ...

Corporate Debt and Investment: A Firm-Level Analysis for Stressed Euro Area Countries

This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area countries. Using firm-level data from 2005 to 2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derivethresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt increased after 2008 when financial distress ...

Ohne Plan: Wirtschaftsentwicklung und Wirtschaftspolitik in Ungarn

Emission Pathways Towards a Low-Carbon Energy System for Europe: A Model-Based Analysis of Decarbonization Scenarios

The aim of this paper is to showcase different decarbonization pathways for Germany and Europe with varying Carbon dioxide (CO2) constraints until 2050. The Global Energy System Model (GENeSYS-MOD) framework, a linear mathematical optimization model, is used to compute low-carbon scenarios for Europe as a whole, as well as for 17 European countries or regions. The sectors power, low- and high-temperature ...

Klimaschutz und Kohleausstieg: Politische Strategien und Maßnahmen bis 2030 und darüber hinaus

Ziel des Vorhabens ist es, den langfristigen Ausstieg aus der Kohleverstromung aus klimapolitischer Sicht zu untersuchen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf den wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der betroffenen Regionen. Neben den grundlegenden deskriptiven und analytischen Arbeiten wird vom Auftragnehmer auch eine aktive Beteiligung an der Kommunikation erwartet, u. a. die Durchführung eines...

Sascha Drahs has successfully defended his dissertation

Sascha Drahs, who worked at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays in Public Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DIW Berlin). We congratulate Sascha on ...

Sascha Drahs has successfully defended his dissertation

Sascha Drahs, who worked at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays in Public Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DIW Berlin). We congratulate Sascha on ...

Parental Unemployment and the Transition into Tertiary Education: Can Institutions Moderate the Adverse Effects?

This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these intergenerational effects depend on social and education policies. We use data from five longitudinal surveys to analyze ...

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Call: InGRID Summer school ‘EU-SILC training workshop: Comparative research on migration’

An additional call for an InGRID Summer school 25 - 26 October 2018at DIW Berlin is open. Deadline for applications: 3 September 2018Information on applications: 11 September 2018 General information The ‘EU-SILC trainings workshop: Comparative research on migration’ aims at training doctoral students or early-career researchers. It is also open to academics, policy practitioners ...