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Prospects for Steam Coal Exporters in the Era of Climate Policies: A Case Study of Colombia

Continued global action on climate change has major consequences for fossil fuel markets, especially for coal as the most carbon-intensive fuel. This article summarizes current market developments in the most important coal-producing and coal-consuming countries, resulting in a critical qualitative assessment of prospects for future coal exports. Colombia, as the world’s fourth largest exporter, is ...

Italy Must Foster High Growth Industries

by Stefan Gebauer, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Kriwoluzky, Anselm Mattes and Malte Rieth Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive services, ...

Macroeconomics Department

The Macroeconomics Department analyses macroeconomic relationships using empirical and theoretical methods. The department's research focuses on the central topic of macroeconomics and inequality and includes analyses of monetary and fiscal policy, green macroeconomics, and nowcasts and forecasts of income distributions of private households based on the SOEP. A particular focus is placed on the...

Advances in Macro-finance: Credit Cycles, Asset Prices, and the Macroeconomy

This course provides an ideal complement for the BSE short course from Prof. Christian Bayer on "Business Cycle Models with Heterogeneous Agents". Please register with Juliane at jmetzner@diw.de, if you are interested.

Der Equal Pay Day kommt 77 Tage zu spät

Den heutigen Equal Pay Day, der auf den Verdienstunterschied zwischen Männern und Frauen aufmerksam macht, kommentiert Elke Holst, Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Gender Studies am DIW Berlin, wie folgt:

German Economy Growing despite Uncertainties and Risks; Global Economy Continuing to Cool Down: Editorial

Research Group Gender Economics

The Gender Economics research group at DIW Berlin analyzes gender gaps on the labor market, in particular the gender pay gap and the underrepresentation of women in top-leadership positions in the corporate sector. Moreover, the group works on several research projects on the evaluation of social policy, family policy and tax policy with respect to its implications on women’s employment prospects...

The Global Economy and the Euro Area: Weak International Trade, Robust Domestic Demand: DIW Economic Outlook

The current global economic environment remains harsh. Global growth rates stagnated in the fourth quarter of 2018, particularly affected by foreign trade. DIW Berlin’s forecast indicates global economic growth of 3.7 percent for 2019 and 3.6 percent for 2020. Positive stimuli are expected from catch-up effects (in the European automobile industry, for example) and the continued positive development ...

German Economy Remaining Strong amidst Uncertainties: DIW Economic Outlook

Although the economic boom in Germany is over, a recession is not looming. The economy is still expected to grow by 1.0 percent this year despite its recent weaker performance. Consumption remains a mainstay of the economy; the average annual increase in the number of employees is likely to be just under half a million. At 1.5 percent, inflation is barely dampening purchasing power and together with ...

Fridays for the Future: heutiges Handeln ist gefragt