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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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Report
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
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Report
On 15th September 2011, the Kyrgyztsan project team organised a workshop on "Panel Data and the Life in Kyrgyztsan Survey" in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The workshop was hosted by the American University of Central Asia and was funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Fifty representatives of the Kyrgyz government, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, universities, ...
29.09.2011
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Personnel news
Kornelia Hagen, Competition and Consumers Department, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board on Consumer and Food Policies for the upcoming three years by Federal Minister Ilse Aigner. The Scientific Advisory Board on Consumer and Food Policies at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has been established in 2002 to support the further development of consumer ...
27.09.2011
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Report
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Belke, Member of the "Monetary Experts Panel" of the European Parliament, on the European Central Banks' Change of Guard from Trichet to Draghi:First, the paper provides a review of the Trichet presidency and its main legacy with emphasis on polito-economic considerations. Second, it also delivers a preview of the Draghi presidency and evaluates the challenges the new president ...
16.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Alliance `90/The Greens at the Crossroads : on Their Way to Becoming a Mainstream Party?by Martin Kroh, Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011The Greens have been riding high in the polls for months now. In Baden-Württemberg, a stronghold of the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU), Winfried Kretschmann became the first Green party candidate to be elected Minister-President of any German ...
02.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Labor Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe : the Migration of Workers to Germany Has Been Limited in Scopeby Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011The enlargement of the EU in 2004 has had numerous effects- and the German labor market has not been left untouched. Among migrant laborers coming to Germany, self-employment has been the most frequent form of labor market participation to date. ...
02.09.2011