Vorträge des DIW Berlin

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Measuring Deprivation: A New Index of Visible Wealth

Endogenous Shifts in OPEC Market Power: A Stackelberg Oligopoly with Fringe

This article proposes a two-stage oligopoly model for the crude oil market. In a game of several Stackelberg leaders, market power increases endogenously as the spare capacity of the competitive fringe goes down. This effect is due to the specific cost function characteristics of extractive industries. The model captures the increase of OPEC market power before the financial crisis and its drastic...

Bank Competitions and Small Business Lending

Home Alone? The Effects of Children Leaving and Returning Home on Parental Well-Being

Economic Security and Social Networks

Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

Job Market Information

Gas Prices, Tax and the Automobile Market

The Economic Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from German Administrative Data

Price Inference in Markets with Diverse Information

EMU Current Account Divergence: Domestic Demand, Price Competitiveness and the Walters Critique

Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

How Efficient Are German Power Plants?: A Nonparametric Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Electricity Generation Technologies in a Meta Frontier Framework

Do Mothers Adjust Their Labor Supply in Response to Child-Raising Periods in the Pension System?

Multiplicative Compounding under Shocks: A Lab Experiment

The Benefit of Coordinating Congestion Management in Germany

Why Do Emitters Trade Carbon Permits? Firm-Level Evidence from the European Emission Trading Scheme

Institutional and Long-Term Investment Framework for Tomorrow's Infrastructure Scale-Up