Vorträge des DIW Berlin

European Perspective - What Are Other Countries Doing?

Conflict Experiences and Household Expectations on Recovery: Survey Evidence from Northern Uganda

We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood Survey of 2007 with a disaggregated conflict exposure index based on the Armed Conflict Locations Events...

Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) system, the replacement level for periods of sickness of up to six weeks was reduced from 100 percent to ...

Facing a Break Point in Global Inflation Transmission?

Empirische Sozialforschung in und mit Hilfe von "Second Life": eine neue (Survey) Methode und erste Ergebnisse

Armut - Einführung, Definition, Situation in Deutschland

Stiftungen und Klimaschutz - Einschätzung und Bewertung: moderierter Austausch mit Experten

Anforderungen an ein geschlechtergerechtes Wirtschaftsmodell

Correlation Neglect in Financial Decision-Making

Klimaschutz als Wirtschaftsmotor: mit intelligentem Energie-Mix der Krise begegnen

Soziale Lage von Personen ohne Abschluss: eine Betrachtung auf Basis der Längsschnittdaten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Bedingungen erfolgreicher Lebensläufe junger Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund: Ergebnisse eines deutsch-französischen Vergleichs

Diskussionsteilnahme

An Econometric Analysis of Terrorism Risk Concern in Europe Using Eurobarometer Data

We investigate whether differences in terrorism risk are mirrored on terrorism risk perception across European countries for the period 2003-2007. We find that the average propensity for terrorism risk concern is affected by actual risk levels. Further, country and individual heterogeneity contribute substantially to the variation of observed risk perception. According to our findings males,...

The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Survey

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the survey presents the existing...

The Pirates of Somalia: Coastguards of Anarchy

This paper analyses the underlying factors driving piracy off the coast of Somalia and examines the effectiveness of the international naval anti-piracy mission with respect to its declared aims. We show that while the navies perform well with respect to their short-term aims, they failed to contain the escalation of the piracy problem through 2009: pirates have not been deterred from attacking...

Deutschland und Europa - Herausforderungen nach der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise

Who Does What in a Household after Genocide? Evidence from Rwanda

. - This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two unique features: exogenous variation in household types and large variation in regional cohort...

The Pirates of Somalia: Coastguards of Anarchy

This paper argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, Somali piracy is likely to increase if Somalia's domestic stability is improved, and that naval counter-piracy efforts had limited and unpredicted effects. To make this argument we analyze the underlying factors driving piracy off the coast of Somalia and examine the effectiveness of the international naval anti-piracy mission. We show that...

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...