Events of the Executive Board Department

Europe's Reluctant Hegemon

On June 15, 2013, the international affairs magazine The Economist will publish a Germany Special Report, analyzing Germany's economy, politics, and external image. In a remarkably short space of time, the country written off as the "sick man of Europe" only a decade ago has become the continent's powerhouse. Yet, as important as Germany is, Europe and the rest of the world have so...

The Dragon’s Dream - China’s Economic Performance and Aspirations

PresentationVincent Koen | OECD Economics DepartmentCommentRobert Kappel | GIGA - German Institute of Global and Area Studies Chair Heino v. Meyer | OECD Berlin Centre The OECD's 2013 Economic Survey of China analyses the challenges faced by the new leadership in Beijing and sets out recommendations to foster more inclusive and greener urbanisation and growth. Vincent Koen, one of the report...

Economic and Institutional Reforms in Greece: in for the Long Haul

Panel | Short StatementsProf. Georges Siotis, Senior Economic Advisor to the EU Commission's Task Force for GreeceDr. Ludger Schuknecht, Director General I, Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Affairs, International Financial and Monetary Policy, Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D., President of DIW BerlinChairProf. Dr. Alexander Kritikos, Research Director at DIW Berlin Greece...

Bootstrap Inference in Econometrics

Econometrics of Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) regressions and related methods

14:00-18:30 (Mo) / 09:00-12:30 (Di)

Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics

Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop

The Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop is a half-year joint event between the DIW, ESMT, WZB, and TU Berlin with the aim of fostering the exchange between active researchers in the areas of behavioral and experimental economics. The 2012 workshop is jointly organized by Dorothea Kübler (WZB), Steffen Huck (WZB and UCL), Paul Heidhues (ESMT), Frank Heinemann (TU), Georg Weizsäcker (DIW...

The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

An Experimental Study of Precautionary Bidding

WEIS 2012

The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified market failures...

Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting

Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom

Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom

Women life-cycle labour suply: incentives and responses

AbstractWe develop a life-cycle model of woman's labour supply, human capital formation and savings for welfare-to-work and tax policies' evaluation. Women's decisions are formalised in a dynamic and uncertain environment. The model includes a detailed characterisation of the tax system and of the dynamics of family formation while explicitly considering the determinants of employment and...

Using duration models for public policy evaluation

09:00-12:00 (Wed, Room 5.2.010)14:00-18:00 (Wed, Room 5.2.010)14:30-16:30 (Thu, Room 2.2.008)

Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Understanding the Incentives of Commission Motivated Agents: Theory and Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market

The Relationship between Oil Markets and the Macro Economy: Theory and Empirics

Contents A brief history of oil markets and oil price shocks The determinants of the price of oil Flow supply shocks versus flow demand shocks The role of speculation and expectations in oil markets How are oil price shocks transmitted to oil-importing economies? Nonlinearities in the Oil-Macro Relationship How should policy makers respond to oil price shocks? Forecasting the price of oil

Scale Economies and Returns to Scale in Non-Parametric Cost and Production Models: Exploring the Impact of Convexity of Technology

The Future of Natural Gas in the "Energiewende" - Pipelines, Supply Security, and Fuel Mix in Germany and Europe

Presenter: Dr. Jeff Makholm, Boston, USA, leads the Natural Gas Practice at National Energy Research Associates (NERA), he is a world-known expert in the natural gas sector and pipeline regulation in particular, and has advised industry and governments in the US, Asia, and Europe. Makholm is also author of a recent book "The Political Economy of Pipelines", University of Chicago Press (2...