Vorträge des DIW Berlin

The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on...

Money for Nothing? The Effects of Continuous Training on Subjective Job Security

Postmaterialism and Status Attainment of Young Adults

What Is Unorthodox Monetary Policy?

After the near collapse of the global financial system after the default of Lehmann Brothers money markets froze and caused the problem of the massive contagion process of a global liquidity crisis. To counter this process the Fed, the ECB and the Bank of England in particular started monetary activities summarized under the label of unorthodox monetary policies (see Muellbauer 2008). Until that...

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

Surveys in Alternative Indicators and Their Use in Economic Policy: Panel Discussion

Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Wirtschaftspolitik: Keynote

Wirtschaftspolitische Perspektiven für die neuen Bundesländer: Podiumsdiskussion

Buyer Power and Category Captainship

Toward an Efficient Use of R&D: Accounting for Heterogeneity in the OECD

Informational Opacity and Honest Certification

Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal and Vertical Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework

Gründungen und Selbständigkeit in Deutschland: Trends und Entwicklungen

The Importance of Family Background for Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Diskussionsteilnahme

Diskussionsteilnahme

Urbanization - Economic Dynamic and Social Problems

Association between Early Attendance of Day Care Centers and Prevalence of Eczema

Non-cognitive Skills and the Economics of Entrepreneurial Decision Making

Based on a large, representative German household panel, this paper investigates whether non-cognitive skills influence entrepreneurial decision making, in particular the entry and exit decision, the latter one thus capturing entrepreneurial survival. The analysis reveals that there are some variables that affect the economic decision of becoming an entrepreneur and different ones or different...

Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market: How to Check Sign Restrictions in Structural VARs

Given the growing dissatisfaction with exclusion and long-run restrictions in structural vector autoregressive analysis, sign restrictions are becoming increasingly popular. So far there are no techniques for validating the shocks identified via such restrictions. Although in an ideal setting the sign restrictions specify shocks of interest, sign restrictions may be invalidated by measurement...