Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Zur Entwicklung der Altersarmut in Deutschland

Differential Taxation and Firms' Financial Leverage: Evidence from the Introduction of a Flat Tax on Interest Income

Tax competition for the mobile factor capital has led to a trend in many countries to levy lower taxes on interest income, often introducing differential taxation between interest and business income. In this study, we analyze the effect of such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms. We exploit a 2009 tax reform in Germany as a quasi-experiment, which introduced a flat final withholding...

Banking of Surplus Emissions Allowances: Does the Volume Matter?

When Will Privacy Policy Learn from Privacy Economics?: Panel Discussion

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Evidence of Market Power in the Atlantic Steam Coal Market Using Oligopoly Models with a Competitive Fringe

The Dynamics of Relative Deprivation and Well-Being and the Role of Visible Assets

The Road to Trade Liberalization Is Paved with Good Intentions

Migration and Social Networks in Kyrgyzstan: Informal Transfers in the Sending Communities

Innovationssystem Deutschland vor und nach der Krise

The Strategic Use of Private Quality Standards in Food Supply Chains

Mobilization by Opportunity? Direct Democracy and Political Interest

OiI and Inequality: Is Kazakhstan Different?

Interessen und Interessenkonflikte bei Politikberatung durch Ökonomen

The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we contrast the impact of parental cognitive abilities (fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence) and personality traits (Big Five,...

Seventy Years of Climbing: Post-socialist Transition and Educational Mobility in Kyrgyzstan

It is widely believed that twenty years of post-socialist transformation has strengthened the association of socio-economic status, such as education or incomes, between parents and children. This finding is mainly based on studies conducted in post-socialist countries in Europe. Little is known about Central Asia. This paper investigates developments in educational mobility during the transition...

Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...

A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US

Motivated by the contradictory existing evidence on estimated German intergenerational earnings elasticities (IGE), I present a cross-country comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in Germany and the US reassessing the question whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany compared to the US. In particular I analyze whether the two countries differ in the structure of...

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