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18.11.2009
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18.11.2009
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DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Prof. Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics as DIW Research Professor for an intiial period of three years with effect from December 1. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment.
18.11.2009
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Dr. Franziska Holz, researcher in the department Energy, Transporation, Environment, won the 2nd Prize of the German Association for Energy Economics (GEE/Energieforum Berlin) for her dissertation "Modeling the European Natural Gas Market - Static and Dynamic Perspectives of an Oligopolistic Market". The thesis shows that the completion of the Single European Market for natural gas is not ...
11.11.2009
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A new research center devoted to the evaluation of climate policies opens today in Berlin. The center is a branch of the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an international research organization currently being established by George Soros. The Berlin center is the first to be up and running; addi-tional centers are planned for Peking, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and Ven-ice. Housed within DIW Berlin, ...
11.11.2009
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The shipping of the DVD containing the SOEP data 1984-2008 (wave Y) just started. 25 waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data are available for Euro 30,- (plus shipping costs) within EEA.If you want to get the data, you have to have a data distribution contract and have to order the data.More information about our conditionsOrder formUnfortunately shortly after completing the DVD, errors in data generation ...
09.11.2009
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In October 2009 Petra Zloczysti joined the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing, Service as a new research affiliate. She's going to work closely together with the innovation team.
02.11.2009
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The most prestigious German research prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of DFG (German Research Foundation) for 2009 was recently conferred on SOEP User Armin Falk (University of Bonn) for his research, “which has set standards in the behavioral economic research and in the economic sciences as a whole.” Among the eleven Leibniz prizes awarded in 2009, only two go to researchers ...
01.11.2009
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30.10.2009
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30.10.2009
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30.10.2009
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Daniel Nepelski graduated with a PhD degree from the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. His thesis „Three Essays on Competition and Innovation“ was examined by the professors Ulrich Kamecke, Humboldt University Berlin and Christian Wey, DIW Berlin and Technical University Berlin. Daniel Nepelski worked between 2002 and 2008 as a research assistant and research fellow at the department ...
12.10.2009
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30.09.2009
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Frauke Peter (SOEP) will receive funding for three years for her Ph. D. research project on the subject “Change in family resources and their effect on cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence: an analysis on the basis of panel data” within the Framework Program for the Promotion of Educational Research of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.BMBF ...
29.09.2009
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Dr. Silke Anger (SOEP) holds the Junior Professorship for Labor Economics in the Faculty of Economics at Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin in winter term 2009/2010.
29.09.2009
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Dr. Martin Kroh (SOEP) holds the Professorship for Empirical Social Research and the Theory of Science at the University of Bamberg (standing in for Gerhard Schulze) in winter term 2009/2010.
29.09.2009
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In recent years more and more of the scholarly journals that publish empirical papers using microdata stipulate that the microdata be submitted for archiving along with the paper itself. Making SOEP and CNEF data available for reanalysis while maintaining the highest levels of data protection, can present a major challenge-The Reseach Data Center of the SOEP is now offering users opportunities to make ...
28.09.2009
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We are pleased to inform you about the changes in the current dataset (1984-2008, wave Y) here or in the SOEPnewsletter 86.
28.09.2009
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German voters will vote on 27 September in the midst of a crisis that has turned Germany’s economic strength – its status as the world’s export champion – into a disadvantage. An unprecedented collapse in exports is currently expected to lower gross domestic product by about 5% in 2009, raising concerns that mass unemployment may return.In response to the challenge, the government ...
25.09.2009
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25.09.2009