Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Stock Investments for Old-Age

Returns merely based on one purchasing price of an asset are uninformative for people regularly contributing to their old-age provision. Here, each purchase has an influence on the outcome. Still, they are commonly used in finance literature, giving an overly optimistic view of expected long-term stock market returns and risks. Moreover, around business cycle turning points when volatility is high...

Sovereign Risk, Interbank Freezes, and Aggregate Fluctuations

This paper studies the bank-sovereign link in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with strategic default on public debt. Heterogeneous banks give rise to an interbank market where government bonds are used as collateral. A default penalty arises from a breakdown of interbank intermediation that induces a credit crunch. Government borrowing under limited commitment is costly ex ante as...

The Effects of Disintegrated Distribution

Das Managerinnen-Barometer des DIW Berlin

Zukunft des Wachstums

Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

FTR Allocations to Ease Transition to Nodal Pricing: An Application to the German Power System

Is It the Family or the Neighborhood? A Comparison of Family and Neighborhood Effects in Youth Education and Health

Möglichkeiten regionalisierter Analysen mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel

Rational Inefficiency in the German Public Electricity Distribution Sector

Improving Benchmarking for Multi-Utilities in the Electricity Sector

Technical Change and Technology Convergence in German Electricity and Heat Generation: A StoNED Metafrontier Analysis

Markups in the German Utility Sector: A Multisegment Approach

Liberalization of the Interurban Coach Market in Germany: An Attitudinal Problem?

Determinants of Efficiency in Franchising Regional Rail Services in Germany

The Freedom of Others: On Behavioral Responses to Mass-Releases from Prisons in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Anhaltend hohe Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland: Ergebnisse des DIW Wochenbericht Nr. 9/2014

Incentivizing Low Carbon Technology Innovation through Policy

Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO

DDI on Rails and r2ddi: Building a Workflow for Panel Documentation

Vision. The data portal DDI on Rails accompanies researchersthroughout the entire course of their research projects from conception topublication/citation.The system offers researchers the possibility to explore the SOEP data, tocompile personalized datasets, and to publish results on the publicationdatabase.