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To improve our SOEP user services, we are again conducting a user survey up to November 14. We are very interested in both the fresh viewpoints of new SOEP users and the insights of our longtime users. This year—among other subjects of the survey—we would like your opinions about our new metadata portal SOEPinfo v.2. If you have not yet participated in our online survey, we invite you to ...
17.10.2014
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It’s now even easier to order the data from the SOEP-related study “Familien in Deutschland” (FiD, Families in Germany), now available in its fourth wave. All SOEP users with a valid contract can order the FiD data in the usual ways (SOEPhotline, online form, fax form) without needing to sign any additional data distribution contracts. The dataset is available upon request for free ...
16.10.2014
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Mathias Hübener has been granted a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (SddV) from October 2014 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates him on his success!
15.10.2014
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The German economy will grow by 1.3 percent this year and by 1.2 percent in 2015, predict the economic research institutes involved in the Joint Economic Forecast in their autumn report. According to the report, Germany’s economy has cooled down markedly. With economic output falling in the second quarter and stagnating in the third quarter of 2014, the engine for economic growth is proving hard ...
09.10.2014
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The heating market plays a key role in achieving the Federal Government's energy and climate policy objectives. In particular, major savings need to be made in heating residential buildings if the majority of buildings are to be climate-neutral by 2050. In light of this, DIW Berlin and ista Deutschland GmbH have created an up-to-date data basis that is based on the heating energy bills of apartment ...
09.10.2014
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Personnel news
Amelie Schiprowski has been granted a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (SddV) from November 2014 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!
08.10.2014
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On September 29/30, the DIW Graduate Center welcomed its new cohort through various events. Fourteen promising young students introduced themselves at the welcome reception in the evening of September 29, following the opening speeches of Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin, and Prof. Helmut Lütkepohl, Dean of the GC. On September 30, a detailed introduction to the doctoral program ...
01.10.2014
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Two members of the RESOURCES team, Dr. Franziska Holz und Dr. Daniel Huppmann, paid their annual research visit to the cooperation partner in Trondheim (Norway). Together with Dr. Ruud Egging, Associate Professor at NTNU and Research Affiliate at DIW Berlin, the researchers of the research group resource markets have developed several numerical equilibrium models of international energy markets. The ...
30.09.2014
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Economically, Greece is still at rock bottom. Following massive cuts to its unit labor costs, the country no longer has any cost problems but its economy has not yet been reanimated. This makes it quite evident that by focusing solely on cost reductions and institutional reforms, the troika program did not go far enough. Without further reforms, certain sectors of the Greek economy such as tourism, ...
24.09.2014
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The European Economic Association (EEA) gave one of the FEEM Awards 2014 for the best papers presented at the annual congress of the EEA to Christian Krekel, doctoral student at the SOEP. The award was established in 2009 and aims to reward new ideas addressing key economic issues at the European and global scale. It honors young economists who are no more than three years past their PhD defense. The ...
19.09.2014
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The German economy will grow by 1.5 percent this year. In the coming year, the increase in GDP will be somewhat higher at 1.8 percent. The jobless rate will be 6.7 percent this year but it will rise by three-tenths of a percentage point in the coming year. Inflation will remain moderate in both years; prices will rise by 1.0 percent this year and 1.5 percent in 2015. Global economic growth was far ...
17.09.2014
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Personnel news
Tomaso Duso, Head of Department Firms and Markets, has been appointed to the Working Group on Competition Law of the Bundeskartellamt. The group consists of university professors from economic and legal faculties and judges from the competition divisions at the courts, who come together to discuss current competition law issues.
11.09.2014
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The energy service provider, ista, and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) are jointly developing the new "Heat Monitor Germany". From autumn 2014, this monitoring programme is to create greater transparency on heating energy consumption and costs throughout Germany. As a result, measures to achieve greater energy efficiency in the building sector are to be implemented ...
11.09.2014
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Although the European Central Bank (ECB) has been pursuing an expansionary monetary policy course for many years, inflation in the euro area remains extremely weak. Furthermore, as the present Wochenbericht clearly demonstrates, the inflation expectations in the euro area are no longer firmly anchored. Expectations are becoming increasingly decoupled from the ECB's inflation target which, in turn, ...
10.09.2014
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From September 7 to 10, DIW Graudate Center was well represented at Germany's biggest conference in economics - the annual conference of the German Economic Associaton (Verein für Socialpolitik) in Hamburg. GC Students Christian Krekel, Alexandra Avdeenko, Holger Lüthen, Daniel Huppmann, Alexander Zerrahn, Patricia Gallego-Granados and Michael Neumann presented their papers on a wide range ...
09.09.2014
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The Joachim R. Frick Memorial Prize honors the best paper and poster presented at the biennial SOEP User Conference. In 2014, the Joachim R. Frick Memorial Prize for the best paper went to Christoph Wunder, and the Joachim R. Frick Memorial Prize for the best poster went to Wouter Zwysen.Further information can be found here.
08.09.2014
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At this year's SOEP conference, the Felix Büchel Award was presented for the fifth time in the history of the SOEP. The Felix Büchel Award honors longtime SOEP users who have done important work with the SOEP data. In 2014, Jenny Hunt and Thomas Klein received the award.Further information on the 2014 Felix Büchel Award can be found here.
08.09.2014
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The first ever gender-specific analysis of income and tax distribution in Germany has been implemented using the most recently available data on personal income tax statistics from 2007. According to its findings, the average income of women is only half that of men. This income gap is less pronounced in capital and rental income than in earned income. The total average personal income tax burden for ...
27.08.2014
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Christian Krekel, doctoral student at the SOEP, was awarded the CINCH Academy Best Paper Award 2014 together with Jan Goebel, Tim Tiefenbach and Nicolas R. Ziebarth for the joint paper "Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima".The health economic research center CINCH headquartered in Essen combines three regional research institutions in the field of health economics: ...
26.08.2014
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Both economic and security policies increasingly rely on opportunities to use and analyze personal data. These opportunities are, however, not universally considered to be positive bythe general public. This applies to digital surveillance in particular. DIW Berlin has analyzed how much trust the general public has in surveillance measures such as communicationsdata retention or the storage of flight ...
20.08.2014