Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Ways Forward in Financial Inclusion and Integrity

Eastern Germany on the Brink of Closing the Productivity Gap?: Firm-Level Evidence from Manufacturing

After 20 years of transition, productivity in Eastern Germany is still considerably below the Western level. We study the development of the East-West productivity gap at the firm level and link it to firms' product policy. Redesigning their product range was a major challenge for Eastern enterprises as they sought their place in the international division of labour. Based on data from...

Cooperative Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

We present a duopoly model of price discrimination with two-dimensional consumer het- erogeneity to analyze two types of cooperation between competitors involving customer data: joint information acquisition and information sharing. We find that incentives for both co-operation types depend on the willingness to switch brands of consumers. Firms are unlikely to jointly acquire customer data when...

Determinants of Internationalization: Differences Between Service and Manufacturing SMEs

Wage-Settings Regimes in International Oligopoly

Gender Relations in Couples and the Risk of Separation in East and West Germany

Emissiontrading and the Promotion of Renewable Energy

Aktuelle Diskussionen in der Energiepolitik

One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich...

Industrie als Wachstumsmotor der Großstädte

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen des Klimaschutzes

Von der Idee zur Innovation

Entwicklung der Einkommens- und Vermögensungleichheit

Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: New Insights into Cointegration Relationship

This paper examines the long-run relationship between energy consumption and real GDP, including energy prices, for 25 OECD countries from 1981 to 2007. The distinction between common factors and idiosyncratic components using principal component analysis allows to distinguish between developments on an international and a national level as drivers of the long-run relationship. Indeed,...

Future Coal Markets in the Light of Climate and National Policies: Scenarios with the COALMOD-World Model

Determinants of Global Oil Production: Empirical Evidence for More Than Short Run Cartel Rent Maximization

Zur Lage der Weltwirtschaft und der deutschen Konjunktur

'Violent Development' and 'Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys'

Women's Noncognitive Skills and Transition to Employment after Childbirth

The findings of the previous economic literature on mothers' transition into employment after childbirth suggest that individuals' characteristics are much more important determinants than the institutional background. Another strand of recent literature found that noncognitive skills play an important role in economic and social success. Building on these two strands of literature, the present...

Social Relationships and Trust

Social connections play an important role for people coping with insecure living conditions. We analyze whether a reduction in trade partners¿ social distance helps overcome information asymmetries in a two-person exchange. Reduced social distance leads to more trust and cooperation among participants from an informal-housing area in Cairo. Although this higher cooperation is reflected by higher...