DIW President Zimmermann: “Another opportunity missed at the G-20 summit in Canada.” The German economy will grow at a moderate pace through 2010 and 2011. According to the quarterly forecast released today by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German economy will grow with an average rate of 1.9 percent in 2010, and 1.7 percent in 2011. “The recovery is ...
Banks should diversify their investment portfolios, European think tanks urgeEuropean banks should develop more strongly diversified international investment portfolios. This would substantially reduce the risk of contagion in financial market crises, economists have urged. Their findings are included in a policy brief published today by FINESS, an EU-wide research consortium, led by DIW Berlin, the ...
The SOEP is not only active at scientific conferences; we also work hard to bring our work to the broader public. We had the chance to do so the evening of June 5, 2010, at the tenth annual “Long Night of the Sciences” in Berlin. At this event, the capital city’s scientific institutions open their doors to the public for workshops, lectures, and activities. SOEP participated this ...
Jönköping International Business School/Jönköping University has appointed Dorothea Schäfer, Research Director Financial Markets, as Associate Professor on May 20, 2010.
On May 19, Alexander Kritikos has officially taken the office of Vice President of DIW Berlin. At the same time, he received the certificate of appointment for his professorship at Potsdam University. Kritikos was appointed by the Board of Trustees of DIW Berlin last March.In his office of Vice President, Alexander Kritikos will mainly be responsible for the scientific work of DIW Berlin. One priority ...
Mathis Schröder took over coordination of the project “Familien in Deutschland” (FID, families in Germany) in May 2010 as senior project manager. He studied economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and during this time also worked for SOEP as a student research assistant. In 2006 he attained his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY/USA. After working for six ...
Dominika Kalinowska, since 2004 researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment, successfully completed her dissertation on „Integrated passenger transport policy assessment within a computable general equilibrium framework" at the Technical University Berlin. The objective of the dissertation work was the integration of passenger travel demand within a General ...
SOEP user Richard A. Easterlin of the University of Southern California/USA was awarded the 2009 IZA Prize in Labor Economics in October of last year. He was recognized, according to the prize committee, for his “outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes.” He has expanded traditional economic ...