Objective: Leaders differ in their personalities from non- leaders. However, when do these differences emerge? Are leaders “born to be leaders” or does their personality change in preparation for a leadership role and due to increasing leadership experience? Method: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we examined personality differences between leaders (N = 2683 leaders, women: n ...
Von Wolf-Peter Schill und Alexander Roth Diese Seite gibt einen kurzen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand aller im Ampel-Monitor Energiewende enthaltenen Indikatoren. Nähere methodische Erläuterungen sowie Datenquellen finden sich auf der Homepage des Ampel-Monitors sowie den einführenden DIW-Wochenbericht 27/2022. Alle zugrunde liegenden Daten sind zudem im Open Energy Tracker ...
This short course is meant to give an overview over the most common web scraping techniques. The idea is to have an interactive course in which the participants get their hands on actual code and work with it. Therefore, please bring your own computers, if possible. The main aim is to cover several approaches that are needed to scrape different types of data from different websites. In...
This series of lectures considers econometrics issues that arise in the process of forecasting. We will see that several basic econometric notions need to be reconsidered when forecasting. An important starting point when forecasting is the underlying motivation for the forecast, which can be summarised in the loss function. We then move to multistep forecasting, forecasting in changing...
