Vorträge des DIW Berlin

The Freedom of Others: On Behavioral Responses to Mass-Releases from Prisons in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Anhaltend hohe Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland: Ergebnisse des DIW Wochenbericht Nr. 9/2014

Incentivizing Low Carbon Technology Innovation through Policy

Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO

DDI on Rails and r2ddi: Building a Workflow for Panel Documentation

Vision. The data portal DDI on Rails accompanies researchersthroughout the entire course of their research projects from conception topublication/citation.The system offers researchers the possibility to explore the SOEP data, tocompile personalized datasets, and to publish results on the publicationdatabase.

The German Energy Transition: Challenges and Chances

Developments in Germany: Background, Current Situation and Outlook

Speicher für die Energiewende

Rentenversicherung und demographischer Wandel: Eckpunkte einer nachhaltigen Rentenpolitik

Podiumsdiskussion

Insurance and Private Transfers

Income and Wealth Inequality after the Financial Crisis: The Case of Germany

The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD ("Growing unequal" and "Divided we stand") but rather since the financial crisis. So far there is only scarce empirical evidence about the consequences of the financial crisis on income inequality (e.g. Jenkins et al. 2013) and more important about wealth inequality given that a...

Structural Vector Autoregressions: Checking Identifying Long-run Restrictions via Heteroskedasticity

Stock Investments for Old-Age: Less Return, More Risk, and Unexpected Timing

Returns merely based on one purchasing price of an asset are uninformative for people regularly contributing to their old-age provision. Here, each purchase has an influence on the outcome. Still, they are commonly used in finance literature, giving an overly optimistic view of expected long-term stock market returns and risks. Moreover, around business cycle turning points when volatility is high...

The German Start-up Subsidy Programmes

Confidence Bands for Impulse Responses: Bonferroni versus Wald

Family Pension Benefits and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Germany

Optimal Infrastructure Investments for Renewable Energy Integration in Germany

Sovereign Risk, Interbank Freezes, and Aggregate Fluctuations

This paper studies the bank-sovereign link in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with strategic default on public debt. Heterogeneous banks give rise to an interbank market where government bonds are used as collateral. A default penalty arises from a breakdown of interbank intermediation that induces a credit crunch. Government borrowing under limited commitment is costly ex ante as...

Adverse Effects of Increased Education Efficiency? The Impact of Shortening High School Tenure on Graduation Age, Grade Repetitions and Graduation Rates

In designing education systems, policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. A fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by increasing education efficiency: The time in high school is reduced by one year while the total number of instruction hours is left unchanged. Employing administrative data on all...