We investigate social disparities in digital skills, focusing on both actual proficiency levels and confidence in these skills. Drawing on a representative sample from Germany, we first demonstrate that both dimensions strongly predict labor market success. We then use this sample to identify gender and socioeconomic disparities in levels and confidence. Finally, using a long-run RCT panel framework ...
Auch nach der Abschaltung der letzten kommerziellen Kernkraftwerke in Deutschland ist die Atomwende noch nicht abgeschlossen: Nach der Abschaltung folgt der Rückbau der Kernkraftwerke und die Herausforderungen der sicheren Entsorgung der nuklearen Abfälle müssen bewältigt werden. Mit der de-facto Verzögerung der Standortauswahl für ein tiefengeologisches Endlager für hochradioaktive Abfälle in Deutschland ...
This course aims at giving tools to students for entering the frontier of research regarding models of financial stability and economic crises. The focus will be on presenting state-of-the-art concepts and empirical methods on financial stability empirics, and general-purpose analytical and computational techniques that enable students to replicate and extend frontier-research papers in these...
This masterclass focuses on recent theoretical advances that incorporate firm heterogeneity into endogenous growth models. Traditional macroeconomic analyses often simplify firm characteristics by using representative-agent frameworks, overlooking significant firm-level differences in productivity, innovation, market power, and pricing decisions. However, empirical analysis of important...
In modern empirical macroeconomics, structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) are routinely used to trace out the responses of macroeconomic variables to structural shocks. These structural shocks could be monetary policy shocks, tax shocks, oil price shocks, and many others. For example, central banks use SVARs to analyse the effects of interest movements on the economy. A crucial step in this...
