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Es wird in den Abteilungen bereits viel zu einzelnen Themen im Bereich  sozial-ökologischen Transformation (SÖT) geforscht, aber wir alle haben nur wenig Kenntnis über die einzelnen Projekte, Forschungspapiere und Ideen. Das möchten wir mit diesem Workshop ändern. Das Ziel dieses ersten Workshops ist es daher, zunächst einmal alle interessierten Kolleg*innen zusammen zu bringen und die ...

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This study examines how inheritance and gift tax systems in combination with gendered parental transfer behavior strengthen gender wealth inequalities. Gender differences in transfers can be reproduced if men benefit differently than women from tax exemptions. This might happen when men and women receive different types of assets where only some are tax exempted. To investigate gendered parental ...

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We study the incentive and labor market effects of disability benefit programs using unique policy variation in Germany. In 2014, disability benefits of new recipients were increased considerably while eligibility criteria were not changed. We exploit this quasi-experimental policy variation to test the implications at two different margins. First, we analyze to what extent an increase in the ...

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As an essential element of forward-looking reporting, company transition plans can play an important role in achieving net zero goals. Existing net zero pledges and plans by companies stongly differ in composition and depth and often lack forward-looking pathways to achieve the goal, which makes it hard for stakeholders from the financial sector to systematically assess and consider them in their ...

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17. Netzwerktreffen DIWomen am Montag, den 22.5.23 von 11 bis 12:30 Uhr. Die Veranstaltung wird digital in deutscher Sprache durchgeführt.   

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Pension funds carry implications on citizens wellbeing in their retirement years and countries’ growths, rendering changes to them following natural disasters of great importance. Using administrative data that comprises a 10 percent random sample of the Australian population and a natural experimental design, we investigate the effects of natural disasters on retirement savings in the aftermath ...

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This paper empirically analyses the impact of government ownership on competition in monopoly and duopoly markets. We use the European Airline Industry as a laboratory. In our empirical strategy we exploit two sources of exogenous variations that allow us to cleanly filter out the effect of government ownership on the likelihood of exit. First, we study government ownership that was triggered by a ...

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Die EU-Richtlinie über die Gesamtenergieeffizienz von Gebäuden (EPBD) etabliert eine neue gesellschaftliche Norm und ein großes politisches Ziel: Bis 2033 sollten alle Wohngebäude einen Mindeststandard an Energieeffizienz erreichen. So sollen Energiekosten und Schocks für Haushalte begrenzt werden und der Energiebedarf reduziert werden, um eine klimaneutrale Energieversorgung für alle zu ...

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The Schumpeter-BSE-Seminar is the Berlin Macro and Economic History seminar. It is jointly organized by Michael Burda (HU Berlin), Frank Heinemann (TU Berlin), Alexander Kriwoluzky (DIW Berlin), Joonseok Oh (FU Berlin) and Nikolaus Wolf (HU Berlin).

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The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a Masterclass on causal machine learning, taught by Michael Knaus. It is designed for all doctoral students and researchers at the DIW who would like to improve their understanding of machine learning and data science more broadly. The Masterclass lasts one day. Please register with the Graduate Center on a first-come, first-served basis: gradcenter@diw.de

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This paper investigates the unique ways in which individuals assimilate new information into their beliefs about stock returns and examines the consequences of heterogeneous information processing on savings and investment decisions. Utilizing two exogenous information treatments from 2017 and 2018 surveys of German households, I discover that individuals' short-term return expectations shift by ...

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The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a workshop on writing good texts for academic journals, taught by Tim Korver. It is designed for all doctoral students and researchers at DIW who would like to improve their English writing skills. We offer a 1.5-day course on May 8 and 9 and we can host up to 12 persons. Please register with the Graduate Center (gradcenter@diw.de) by April 28, 2023. ...

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The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a workshop on best practices of time management in doctoral research, taught by Dr. Simon Golin on May 4th, 2023, from 9am to 4pm. It is designed for all doctoral students and researchers at DIW who would like to improve their time management skills. The workshop can host at most 16 participants. Please register with the GC (gradcenter@diw.de) by April 2 ...

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-- joint with Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Our ...

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-- joint with Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in state ...

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This paper relates incomplete price competition among real estate agents to inattentive home sellers. I exploit a recent legal reform in Germany which specifically aimed to increase price competition among real estate agents by raising the cost salience of sellers. I find that the reform backfired and real estate agents exploited the transition to increase their total commission rate by 0.3 ...

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Der 3. Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History (WIMFEH) wird vom DIW Berlin organisiert. Er bietet Forscherinnen die Gelegenheit, Ideen aus den Bereichen der Makroökonomie, Finance und Wirtschaftsgeschichte auszutauschen.

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Financial systems have developed rapidly in many developing countries. These changes increase the need for research into their effects, especially with a focus on financial inclusion / individual responses.To this end DIW Berlin will host a workshop in the field of “Finance and Development” to be held in Berlin on April 27 in the afternoon and full day April 28, 2023. The workshop will not have ...

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Ohne Investitionen kann der ökologische Umbau der Wirtschaft nicht gelingen. Doch das wirtschaftliche Umfeld in Deutschland weist einige Hürden auf: die anhaltend hohe Inflation, Fachkräftemangel in nahezu allen Branchen und verschiedene Unsicherheitsfaktoren. Wie schaffen es Unternehmen dennoch, grüne Investitionen umzusetzen? Wie kann die Politik Investitionshemmnisse verringern? Im Rahmen einer ...

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