Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Why Do Women Favor In-group Competition? Evidence from an Incentivized Choice Experiment

Behavioral Effects of Gender Identity Priming: Evidence From an Incentivized Choice Experiment

Die Riester-Rente

The German Energy Transition: Political Objectives and Measures of Implementation

Energy Strategy and Policy Implementation

Die Bedeutung von Selbstregulation und Kognition für den "Subjektiven Gesundheitshorizont"

Kohortenunterschiede in der Kognition, im Wohlbefinden und psychosozialen Variablen: Befunde aus den Berliner Altersstudien

Das Aufwachsen bei einer alleinerziehenden Mutter ist verbunden mit geringerer allgemeiner Lebenszufriedenheit im Erwachsenenalter

Entwicklung von sozialen Kontakten über die Lebensspanne

Altersunterschiede in Emotionsregulation: was ist Regulation und wie modellieren wir sie?

Regulation and Investment Incentives in Electricity Distribution

In this paper we analyze the investment behavior of electricity distribution companies. First, we test whether the implementation of an incentive-based regulatory scheme with revenue caps impacts the firms' investment decisions. Second, we test if the specific regulatory design to determine the revenue caps impacts the firms' investment behavior. The analysis is based on a unique and detailed firm...

Offset Credits in the EU Emissions Trading System: A Firm-Level Evaluation of Transaction Costs

Voting for Inefficiency

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic voter model that rationalizes the inefficient use of labor input in municipality-owned enterprises. Our focus is on the relationship between absolute as well as relative inefficiency measures and the size of the municipality in which public firms operate. We show that larger communities maintain enterprises which are on average more efficient in absolute...

Productivity Growth and Its Sources: A StoNED Metafrontier Analyis of the German Electricity Generating Sector

Energy supply in Germany has undergone considerable changes during the last decade, of which especially the nuclear phase-out and enormous installations of renewable energy sources pose new challenges for conventional combustion technologies. To analyze potential adaption processes due to this changing market conditions, this paper analyzes productivity change and its components in the German...

Productivity in the Electricity Retail Market: Does Ownership Matter? A Structural Production Function Approach for Germany

Sonntagsmatinee: Was hält Europa noch zusammen?: Podiumsdiskussion

Discussant to: Liquidity Shocks, Dollar Funding Costs, and the Bank Lending Channel during the European Sovereign Crisis. Ricardo Correa, Horacio Sapriza, Andrei Zlate

Finding Your Right (or Left) Partner to Merge

Speculative Bubbles in Urban Housing Markets in Germany

(Not) in My Backyard? The Impact of Citizen Initiatives on Housing Supply in Germany