Vorträge des DIW Berlin

How Does Day-Care Availability Affect Parental Well-Being? Disentangling Different Mechanisms

Understanding the Effect of Retirement on Health Using Regression Discontinuity Design

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

Challenges for Future Family Policy

Lessons from German Reunification

The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Antidiabetics

How Does Differential Fuel Taxation Impact New Car Purchases?

Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms: Does Fixed-Term Employment Matter?

A growing proportion of employees are working under fixed-term contracts. This paper empirically analyzes whether this strategy actually improves firm productivity. To this end, a largedata set of German manufacturing firms and various panel data models are used in order to reveal the expected non-linear effect. Thereby the analysis also takes into account distortions that may result from...

Success and Failure in Strategic Alliances: Theory and Experimental Evidence

This paper proposes a theoretical framework of strategic alliances that includes two observable dimensions of participating partners which have been identified in the literature as critical for success or failure. In particular, we first propose a simple static theory that links the degree of alliance partners' complementarities with the intensity of their competition in product markets. We show...

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Ausgewählte Ergebnisse Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf, Wohlergehen von Kindern

Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations

Business Confidence and Forecasting of Housing Prices and Rents in Large German Cities

The Spatial Dimension of U.S. House Price Developments

Determinants and Welfare Effects of Smallholder Export Participation in Kyrgyzstan

Übergang in ein Erneuerbaren-Energiesystem: wirtschaftlich sinnvoll und ein wichtiger Schritt in die Energie-Unabhängigkeit

Measuring Ambiguity Aversion

International Interventions to Build Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sudan

Is It the Family or the Neighborhood? Family and Neighbor Correlations in Youth Education and Health

Hidden Skewness: On the Difficulty of Multiplicative Compounding under Random Shocks

Multiplicative growth processes that are subject to random shocks often have a skewed distribution of outcomes. In a number of incentivized laboratory experiments we show that a large majority of participants either strongly underestimate skewness or ignore it completely. Participants misperceive the outcome distribution's spread to be far too narrow-band and they estimate the median to lie too...