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PD Dr. Joachim R. FrickPhoto: DIW Berlin We mourn the loss of our colleague Joachim R. Frick. He died on the 16th of December 2011 at the age of 49. Joachim R. Frick was one of the directors of the internationally renowned Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. At the peak of his career, Joachim fell victim to an extremely virulent form of cancer. He fought bravely and valiantly and in the end found ...
19.12.2011
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The publication of one of the articles by DIW energy expert Claudia Kemfert, co-authored with colleagues Martin Banse (TU Braunschweig) and Giovanni Sorda (RWTH Aachen) in the well renowned international field journal Energy Policy „An overview of biofuel policies across the world" has been ranked in December 2011 on rank 2 of the most read articles. The journal evaluates on a regular basis ...
06.12.2011
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The SOEP Survey Committee welcomes new member Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bärbel-Maria Kurth. She is the Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Reporting at the Robert Koch Institute, and serves on both the Supervisory Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helmholz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig on appointment by the Federal Minister of Education ...
05.12.2011
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Veronika Waue started work in the SOEP group on December 1, 2011. She has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Economics and completed a doctoral thesis on optimization processes. She will be working as part of the SOEP data base team.
05.12.2011
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The SOEP welcomes trainees Florian Griese and Janine Napieraj, who began their training in Market and Social Research on November 1, 2011. The three-year traineeship will take place largely in the SOEP at DIW Berlin as well as at a vocational school in Berlin. Experts in Market and Social Research take on organizational tasks in planning internal and external data collection processes. They conduct ...
05.12.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Securitizations are Dead - Long Live Securitizations? by Georg Erber in: DIW Economic Bulletin Nr. 6/2011. After the financial markets slumped worldwide in 2008, securitizations were seen as a major cause of the conflagration. The securitization market dried up because this financial instrument was no longer trusted. At the time, no one thought securitizations had any future as a financial innovation. ...
02.12.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"After the Crisis is Before the Crisis": Six Questions to Georg Erber
02.12.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Ongoing Change in the Structure of Part-Time Employment by Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin Nr. 6/2011 The prominence of part-time employment has dramatically increased both in Germany and across Europe. Germany has experienced above- average growth and currently the prevalence of part-time employment there also exceeds the EU average. Evidently, this involves fundamental structural change as ...
02.12.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Social and Economic Characteristics of Financial and Blood Donors in Germanyby Eckhard Priller and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin Nr. 6/2011Surveys of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) have shown that Germans donated around 5.3 billion euros in 2009- right in the middle of the financial and economic crisis. The type and amount of donations made is well documented in Germany. ...
02.12.2011
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The consortium of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) organised its first meeting on 31 October - 3 November 2011 at DIW Berlin. The Kick-Off Workshop brought together core and associated partners of the network as well as TAMNEAC Marie Curie fellows. Participants included academics, policymakers, NGO staff and private sector representatives.The first two ...
30.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Reform of Income Splitting for Married Couples: Only Individual Taxation Significantly Increases Working Incentivesby Stefan Bach, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2011.The joint taxation of married couples in Germany with full income splitting is still a major hindrance to the participation of married women in the labor market. In their current financial proposals, ...
04.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"At Least in Germany People Get a Second Chance": Five Questions to Ingrid Tucci
04.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Success Despite Starting Out at a Disadvantage: What Helps Second-Generation Migrants in France and Germany?by Ingrid Tucci, Ariane Jossin, Carsten Keller, Olaf Groh-Samberg in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2011. The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young ...
04.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Child Care Choices in Western Germany Also Correlated with Mother's Personalityby Liv Bjerre, Frauke H. Peter, C. Katharina Spieß in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2011.The expansion of formal child care, particularly for children under the age of three, has resulted in more and more children from this age group attending day care facilities. This formal child care setting is frequently combined with ...
04.11.2011
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Personnel news
Wolf-Peter Schill, a researcher in the department Energy, Transportation, Environment since September 2008, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Modeling Market Failures and Regulation in the Changing German Power Market“ at Technische Universität Berlin (summa cum laude). The thesis deals with selected instances of market failure and regulation in the German power market. ...
20.10.2011
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Personnel news
Nicola Jentzsch, research fellow in the department Competition and Consumers, has won a Google Research Award of 47.923 USD (about 35.000 Euro) for her research in the areas of economics of privacy and valuation of personal information. The research project “Incentive-compatible Mechanism Design for Privacy” encompasses two experiments for which Mrs. Jentzsch cooperates with colleagues ...
12.10.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Speculative Bubble on Housing Markets: Elements of an Early Warning Systemby Christian Dreger, Konstantin A. Kholodilin in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2011.Excessive speculation on asset markets can cause significant macroeconomic losses in terms of production and employment. Such developments should be detected as early and as reliably as possible in order to enable corrective action through adequate ...
07.10.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"A New Early Warning System Can Forecast Housing Bubbles". Six Questions to Konstantin Kholodilin
07.10.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: Strong Economic Growth - Major Challengesby Mechthild Schrooten in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2011Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the so-called BRICS countries - all show high economic growth rates. They suffered only shortly under the turbulences of the international financial crisis in 2008/2009 and were able to recover quickly - in contrast ...
07.10.2011
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Economic Bulletin
The Future of the International Monetary Systemby Ansgar Belke, Kerstin Bernoth, Ferdinand Fichtner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2011The financial crisis of 2007/2008 and the current "Euro crisis" challenge the current global monetary system. They drastically reveal the actual system's weaknesses und show the eminent importance of the international monetary system for the stability of markets ...
07.10.2011