Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Affect Suppression in Daily Life and Changes in Emotional Expressivity: An Experience Sampling Study.

The Dynamics of Global Crude Oil Production

Drivers of Exchange Rate Dynamics in Selected CIS Countries: Evidence from a FAVAR Analysis

We investigate the likely sources of exchange rate dynamics in selected CIS countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) over the past decade (1999-2008). The analysis is based on country VAR models augmented by a regional common factor structure (FAVAR model). The models include nominal exchange rates, the common factor of exchange rates in the CIS countries, and...

Transatlantic Cleavage: Where Do We Go after Toronto G-20

Testing Stock Market Convergence: A Non-linear Factor Approach

This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the analysis on both sectors and individual industries within sectors. As a first step, we use the Stock and...

Unemployment and Portfolio Choice: Does Persistence Matter?

We use a life cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment decisions of households for the European case. Our model is mainly based on the one developed by Cocco, Gomes, and Maenhout (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states. In contrast to most models in the...

A Capital Based Approach to Stock-Flow Consistent Modeling

Analysemöglichkeiten des SOEP für die Bildungsforschung (speziell Vorschulbereich, Grundschule, Sekundarstufe I)

Diskussionsteilnahme

The German Socio-Economic Panel

Glass Ceiling Effect and Wages: The Gender Pay Gap in Management Positions in Germany

Does Personality Matter?

Does Personality Matter?

Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach...

Late-Life Decline in Well-Being

Reconstructing Educational Biographies Using Panel Data: An Assessment of Measurement Problems

Education, Poverty and the Welfare State

Pathways into Retirement and Income Trajectories: Germany and Great Britain Compared

Women at the Top of the Ladder?: A Cross-National Study of Underrepresentation of Women in Managerial Positions in European Countries

The Impact of Gender Relations on Partnership Stability and the Likelihood of Separation