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Report
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) organizes the fourth Scientific Workshop on Productivity jointly with the German Council of Economic Experts (SVR Wirtschaft) in its role as the German National Productivity Board and the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI). The event, which will take place on 24 and 25 August 2026 at DIW Berlin, serves as a platform ...
01.04.2026| Thilo Kroeger, Alexander Schiersch
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Press Release
Although the leading economic research institutes consider the German economy to be in a recovery phase following a downturn lasting several years, they nevertheless expect only a moderate increase in gross domestic product of 0.6 percent for 2026 and 0.9 percent for 2027. “The energy price shock triggered by the Iran war is hitting the recovery hard, but at the same time expansionary fiscal policy ...
01.04.2026
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Nachrichten [UuM]
The article “Public Communication and Collusion: New Screening Tools for Competition Authorities” by Tomaso Duso, Carl Kreuzberg, Joseph Harrington und Geza Sapi has won the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award 2026 in the category “Academic Articles – Coordinated Practices.” The “Best Academic Articles Awards” recognize excellence in the fields of antitrust law and economics.
In the award-winning ...
26.03.2026| Tomaso Duso, Carl Kreuzberg
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Personnel news
Prof. Dr. Franziska Holz, Deputy Head of the Department of Energy, Transport, Environment, and Dr. Wolf-Peter Schill, Head of the Research Department "Transformation of the Energy Industry" in the Department of Energy, Transport, Environment were appointed members of "Energy System of the Future" (ESYS) in December 2025 for the next three years. ESYS is an initiative of the German Academy of Science ...
24.03.2026
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Publication
The SOEPnewsletter March 2026 is now availabe in English and German. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list.
Enjoy reading.
13.03.2026| Elisa Grabas
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Publication
The SOEPnewsletter March 2026 is now availabe in English and German. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list.
Enjoy reading.
13.03.2026| Elisa Grabas
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
In March/April 2026 our online over lunch seminar series returns with one last workshop this year. The workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation.
To ...
17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
The call for papers for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2026 will take place from July 8-9, 2026, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies ...
17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Levent Neyse
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Personnel news
Adeline Guéret, Research Associate at DIW Berlin (Energy, Transportation, Environment Department) and Ph.D. student at Technische Universität Berlin, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Future energy systems with battery electric vehicles: assessing impacts, evaluating models” with summa cum laude on January 28, 2026. Congratulations!
09.02.2026
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Statement
The European Union and India have agreed on a free trade agreement. Sonali Chowdhry, trade expert at DIW Berlin, comments on the significance of this agreement:
27.01.2026| Sonali Chowdhry
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Publication
The SCP is a longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021 (n=17,027). In addition to randomly selected anchor persons, the annual survey also targets their adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of ...
26.01.2026| Julian B. Axenfeld
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Personnel news
On December 11, Cristóbal Moya successfully defended his dissertation with the title “The Politics of Unjust Inequalities: From Injustice Perceptions to Protest and Redistribution” at Bielefeld University.
The committee included Prof. Dr. Carsten Sauer (supervisor and first reviewer, Bielefeld University), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (second reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Sonja Blum (committee chairmanship, ...
16.01.2026
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Personnel news
Sander Kraaij, who is an associate Ph.D. student in the Crime, Labor, and Inequality Department has successfully defended his dissertation at the Universität zu Köln on January 9th. The dissertation, entitled “Essays on Job Quality: Discrimination, Performance Pay, and Corporate Social Responsibility,” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dirk Sliwka (Universität zu Köln) and Prof. Dr. Anna Bindler. Congratulations ...
12.01.2026
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Personnel news
Last week, SOEP celebrated Jürgen Schupp and his forthcoming (at the end of the year) retirement. During the ceremony, he humorously referred to himself as SOEP's “dinosaur.”
During his 41 years at DIW Berlin, he initially worked as a research assistant, then as the survey manager in the infrastructure unit. Subsequently, he was its director for many years. His impressive career as a researcher was ...
20.12.2025
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Personnel news
Sascha dos Santos and his co-authors were honored for their contribution to the European Sociological Review entitled "Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK" by the interdisciplinary jury of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) as one of this year's two winning teams of the ...
18.12.2025
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Personnel news
Sascha dos Santos and his co-authors were honored for their contribution to the European Sociological Review entitled "Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK" by the interdisciplinary jury of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) as one of this year's two winning teams of the ...
16.12.2025
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Personnel news
On December 10, Neil Murray successfully defended his dissertation with the title “The Dynamics of Risk Preferences: Empirical Perspectives on Adaptation and Behavior” at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin).
The committee included Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder (supervisor and first reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus (second reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Natalia Danzer, Ph.D. (FU Berlin), Prof. ...
16.12.2025
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Report
On December 8, 2025, DIW Berlin co-hosted the conference on the heat transition organized by the accompanying research BEWEGT on the EUREF campus. The conference brought together numerous contributions from political and social sciences and clearly showed how diverse social science research on the heating transition has become.
The focus was on questions that are crucial for the success of the heating ...
11.12.2025| Franziska Holz, Dana Kirchem, Caroline Stiel
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Report
The Berlin-based "DIW-OECD industrial strategy dialogues" event series was launchend on December 8. It provides a platform for dialogue between key stakeholders from policy, business, society, and academia to discuss cutting-edge research and which industrial strategies can work for Germany, Europe and their global partners to address the major challenges of our time. Successful industrial strategies ...
09.12.2025| Tomaso Duso
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Report
At the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, which took place from December 7 to 9 in Nicosia, Cyprus, Lavina Kinne and Virginia Sondergeld were awarded the Best Paper Prize. The award-winning project by the two authors is entitled: “Meet my family: women in leadership and gender stereotypes in the media.”
We congratulate them on this great success!
In their study, the two ...
08.12.2025| Lavinia Kinne