Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

We present an energy market equilibrium model that captures climate aspects, infrastructure constraints, fuel substitution, and market power `a la Cournot in a single framework. The model represents the supply and transportation infrastructure, fuel transformation, power generation, and several demand sectors of fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear energy. We calibrate the model to market...

Financing Transmission Investment and the Role of Public Policy

Mitigating Climate Change: Panel

Was läuft schief im deutschen Bankensektor?

The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on...

Berliner Wirtschaft: nach Teilung und Transformation auf Wachstumskurs?

Zensus 2011 - welche Schlussfolgerungen ergeben sich für zukünftige Erhebungen?

Reform des Bundesstatistikgesetzes: notwendige Schritte aus Sicht der Wissenschaft

Trick or Treat? Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal...

What Is the Role of Our National Libraries?

Die US-Wirtschaft im Wahljahr 2012: zwischen Konjunkturoptimismus und Schuldenfalle

Women's Marital Trajectories and the Accumulation of Pension Rights in Germany and the U.S.

Employment-centered pension schemes favor continuous employment careers with (above) average earnings. Typically, men benefit from this pension design, whereas women with different lifecycle work and family choices are structurally disadvantaged. In the past, low pension rights accrued by women were no reason for concern, because they were assumed to share resources with their husband. Increased...

Maternal Labor Market Return, Parental Leave Policies, and Gender Inequality in Housework

This study investigates how the duration of mothers' employment interruption and their work hours upon return affect the division of domestic work in German and British couples after a birth. The analysis uses fixed-effects models after a first or second birth based on couple data from the British Household Panel Study (1991-2008) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (1985-2009). Parental leave...

Zur Entwicklung der Altersarmut in Deutschland

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

The Euro Area Debt Crisis and Strategies for Solution

A FPP Model for Brunei-Darussalam

German Energy Transformation and the Role of European Energy Policy

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity