Dieser Beitrag ist am 16. November in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Sie kennen das Argument: In diesen wirtschaftlich guten Zeiten müsse man nun endlich mal die Leistungsträgerinnen und Leistungsträger entlasten, damit ihre Leistung angemessen gewürdigt wird. Klingt überzeugend. Nur: Wer sind denn die sogenannten ...
Production of basic materials like steel, cement or aluminium is responsible for the majority of industrial GHG emissions. Yet so far national policies provide very limited support for climate friendly material production and efficient use of materials. In principle, Emission Trading Systems were implemented to provide the desired incentives. In practice, carbon leakage concerns trigger free...
Researchers face the challenge to translate their academic results to policy makers and to the public. Often the results are derived using complex theoretical or empirical models, which are based on strong assumptions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop methods and skills, which allow to explain the models and the assumptions to policy makers and to derive results and policy conclusions based...
Is the German manufacturing industry, which has been leaving cities for less densely populated areas since World War II, being lured back into urban centers? This report analyses industrial start-ups from 2012 to 2016 and derives their preferred locations. The analysis shows that the start-up intensity in large agglomerations is on average almost 40 percent higher than in the other regions of Germany. ...
Companies invest in research and development (R&D) to safeguard their competitive ability and increase productivity. Using extensive company data for Germany, the study shows that manufacturing companies that engage in R&D activities and that are located in a central urban agglomeration are especially productive. They additionally benefit from knowledge created by R&D activities of other companies ...
The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career ...
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, langjähriger ehemaliger Vorstand des DIW Berlin, erhielt für sein anhaltendes ehrenamtliches Engagement in der Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Expertise in Politik und Gesellschaft vom Bundespräsidenten das Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Als Sozialökonom und Berater politischer AkteurInnen in verschiedenen ...
This paper proposes a new nonparametric method of constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions of vector autoregressive models. The estimation uncertainty is captured by means of bootstrapping, and the highest density region (HDR) approach is used to construct the bands. A Monte Carlo comparison of the HDR bands with existing alternatives shows that the former are competitive ...
