Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan

Spillover Effects in Oligopolistic Markets

The Effects of Disintegrated Distribution

Information Sharing in Competitive Insurance Markets

Berliner Wirtschaft: Szenario 2030

Vortrag und Podiumsdiskussion

Kampf um Strom: die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Fathers' Usage of Parental Leave: Evidence from Germany

What's Got Naming a Baby to Do with Crisis, and Change?

Wealth Distribution within Couples and Financial Decision Making

The German Socio-Economic Panel as a Rich Data Source for Educational Research

Index-Based Insurance against Weather Extremes in Mongolia

Wirtschafts- und finanzpolitische Rahmenbedingungen

Entrepreneurship versus Joblessness? Explaining the Rise in Self-Employment

The self-employed constitute a large proportion of the workforce in developing countries and the sector has been found to be growing further. Different accounts exist as to the cause of this development, with pull factors such as high returns to capital and increased wealth contrasted with push factors such as barriers to entry into the wage sectors following traditional segmeted labour market...

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures. In this paper, we seek to...

Estimating the Employment Effects of a Minimum Wage from a Cross-Sectional Wage Distribution: A Semi-Parametric Approach

On the basis of a structural labor demand model employment effects of a minimum wage are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution. The main contribution of the paper is to relax restrictive functional form assumptions of earlier papers by adopting semi-parametric censored quantile regressions to this framework. We apply the model to the sectoral minimum wage in the German...

Are We Architects of Our Own Happiness? The Importance of Family Background for Well-Being

This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or wellbeing). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we estimate sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations in four self-reported measures of well-being: life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with health. We find high sibling...

Intergenerational Transmissions and Sibling Correlations in Extreme Right-Wing Party Affinity and Attitudes towards Immigration

Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity

Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? In this paper, we develop a theory of granularity (Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate fluctuations in the credit supply when the...

Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan

Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time scales between 1997 and 2009....