Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Paid Parental Leave and Child Development: Evidence from the 2007 German Benefit Reform and Administrative Data

The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Manufacturing in East Germany since Unification: Restructuring and Actual Role in Unified Germany

A Price Concentration Study On European Mobile Telecom Markets

Interconnection and Prioritization

Finding the Right Yardstick: Regulation under Heterogeneous Environments

Market Power and Asymmetric Pass-through in German Electricity Retail

Does the EU ETS Cause Carbon Leakage in European Manufacturing? A Sector-Level Analysis

Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies

Productivity Growth and the Public and Private Ownership of Regulated Firms

Political Corruption in the Execution of Public Contracts: A Principal-Agent Analysis

Labor Supply of Mothers: The Role of Time Discounting

Calculating Joint Confidence Bands for Impulse Response Functions Using Highest Density Regions

This paper proposes a new non-parametric method of constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions of vector autoregressive models. The estimation uncertainty is captured by means of bootstrapping and the highest density region (HDR) approach is used to construct the bands. A Monte Carlo comparison of the HDR bands with existing alternatives shows that the former are competitive...

Binary Choice Belief Elicitation: An Adaptively Optimal Design

Work Incentives in Europe

An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Tax record data offer more precise information on top incomes at the expense of household context details and incomes of non-filers at the bottom of the distribution. We combine the benefits of the two data sources and...

Don't Stop Me Now: The Impact of Credit Market Segmentation on Firms' Financing Constraints

Oil Prices, Terms of Trade and Optimal Monetary Policy

A Search and Matching Approach to Business-Cycle Migration in the Euro Area

Employment Effects and the Pension System: Evidence from a Cohort Based Reform

In this paper we exploit a cohort specific pension reform to estimate the causal employment effect of changes in the financial incentives to retire. In particular we analyze the effect of the introduction of pension deductions for early retirement on female employment. For the empirical analysis we use high-quality administrative data from the German Federal Pension Insurance (VSKT) and find...