The study uses a synthetic control method to estimate the local economic cost of Brexit. The vast majority of regions in the UK have lost as a result of Brexit. Since losses tend to be concentrated in relatively prosperous regions, Brexit has reduced regional inequalities (“levelling up“) while pushing down national output (“levelling down“ in the aggregate). Using both aggregate data from local...
This study explores the responsiveness of climate policy preferences and individual behaviors to variations in beliefs about climate change impacts. Using an information provision experiment embedded within the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze how updated beliefs influence pro-environmental engagement and whether these effects persist over time. By linking experimental data with rich...
Item nonresponse is a common issue in surveys. We implement an experiment to reduce nonresponse to income questions in an international household survey, looking at four different countries. Survey respondents are asked to report their exact household income. We randomize those who refuse to answer into two groups. In a follow-up question, the control group is asked to choose their income from a...
Zu aktuellen wirtschaftspolitischen Vorschlägen von SPD und CDU mit Blick auf die Bundestagswahl 2025 äußert sich Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:
Finanzminister Christian Lindner will die private Altersvorsorge reformieren, gut so. Doch sein Vorschlag hat drei zentrale Schwächen – die sich zum Glück beheben lassen. Finanzminister Christian Lindner hat einen wichtigen Reformvorschlag der privaten Altersvorsorge vorgelegt. Er enthält viele richtige Elemente, es sind aber drei konkrete Veränderungen nötig, damit er breite Schichten der Bevölkerung ...
We congratulate Jonas Hannane on successfully defending his dissertation on 08 October 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization’ and he was supervised by Tomaso Duso and Hannes Ullrich. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career!
Johannes Seebauer, Research Associate at SOEP and the DIW Graduate Center, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics” with summa cum laude on November 19, 2024. The scientific reviewers were Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. Congratulation!
