BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
Masterclasses are a series of one- or two-day courses on various topics in Economics, organized by the DIW Graduate Center. The target audience consists of graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities and research institutes. The GC Masterclasses are held on an irregular basis at DIW Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin, those of the BDPEMS program, and...
Hoher Zuckerkonsum wird mit Adipositas, Diabetes Typ II und Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen in Verbindung gebracht. Viele Menschen leiden an diesen Krankheiten, die hohe Kosten für die Gesundheitssysteme verursachen. Daher wird immer häufiger die Forderung nach einer Zuckersteuer laut, auch in Deutschland. Einige Länder haben bereits eine Steuer auf zuckerhaltige Getränke eingeführt und daraus lassen sich ...
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we employ the synthetic control method on a unique panel of monthly waste generation. Our results show that the ...
The Capital Markets Union (CMU) – an initiative of the European Commission – aims to unify and deepen capital markets across EU Member States by removing existing barriers to cross-border investment and, in particular, harmonizing financial and business regulations. However, harmonizing institutional frameworks across the EU Member States that historically have different legal traditions is difficult ...
Zur Klage der Europäischen Kommission gegen Deutschland wegen zu hoher Stickoxid-Werte in vielen deutschen Städten äußert sich die DIW-Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert wie folgt:
Dieses Discussion Paper wurde auf Wunsch der Autoren zurückgezogen. - This discussion paper was withdrawn at the request of the authors.
In the 2011 post-Arab Spring migration wave, over 64,000 migrants landed on the southern Italian coast, with many of them potentially working illegally on farms through caporalato, a widespread system of illegal recruitment of underpaid farm labor run by Italian agrimafias. To test this hypothesis, this paper evaluates the causal effects of the 2011 migration wave on reported labor productivity focusing ...
