Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Insurance and Solidarity

Inference of Choice Sets in Grocery Retailing

Identifying Uncertainty Shocks Using the Price of Gold

We propose a new instrument to identify the impact of uncertainty shocks in a SVAR model with external instruments. We construct the instrument for uncertainty shocks by exploiting variations in the price of gold around selected events. The events capture periods of changes in uncertainty unrelated to other macroeconomic shocks. The variations in the price of gold around such events provide a...

The Battle for Redistribution: Why Germany Is Becoming More Unequal

Deindustrialization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of Urban Agglomerations in Germany

The Capital Value of a Team and Depreciation on Organizational Capital

A Comparative Analysis of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

Wealth Gender Differences: The Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time

Culture, Families, and Narratives: How Stories Can Foster Upward Educational Mobility

Visual Data Analysis: A Methodological Frame for a Novel Research Trend

Energiewende – Alles im grünen Bereich?

Determinants of Risk Aversion over Time: Experimental Evidence from Rural Thailand

Labor Supply of Mothers: The Role of Time Discounting

A Just and Optimal Tax System

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...

Time Use, Experienced Well-Being and Labor Market Status

The Decommissioning of Germany's Nuclear Power Plants

Bidding for Network Size

Messung von Einkommensungleichheit und Armut

Rentenreformen und ihr Einfluss auf Renteneintrittsentscheidungen