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Report
Marica Valente, Ph.D. Student in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, has been invited to the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences. The Nobel Laureate Meeting has chosen 373 young economists from 60 countries to join the conference. Due to the SARS-CoV-pandemie the meeting will be online. The actual meeting will take place in 2021.
We congratulate Marica on this honor.
06.05.2020| Marica Valente
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The first Corona edition (SOEPnewsletter April 2020) with links to
result of the Leibniz evaluation of the SOEP at DIW Berlin,
results of the 2019 SOEP User Survey,
data news (SOEP-IS, SOEP-Core and LIS/LWS),
SOEP staff news
and some more
30.04.2020
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Report
According to a study based on SOEP data, thanks to the increasing freedom to choose between parenthood and gainful employment and to organize childcare individually, mothers and fathers today are more satisfied with their lives than parents 20 or 30 years ago. The study was conducted by a research group led by Swiss sociologist Klaus Preisner.
Preisner, Klaus, Franz Neuberger, Ariane Bertogg, ...
30.04.2020
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The Leibniz Association Senate awarded the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin the rating of “excellent” for overall performance in its 2019 evaluation. The recently released evaluation report describes the SOEP as an outstanding research data infrastructure that has achieved the highest levels of recognition worldwide. It goes on to say that the SOEP’s exceptionally well prepared ...
29.04.2020| Monika Wimmer
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What are the economic and social consequences of the corona pandemic for people in Germany, now and in the future? SOEP researchers are exploring this question together with researchers from the University of Bielefeld, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Charité Berlin, and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB Berlin) as part of the research project “Socio-Economic Factors in and Consequences ...
29.04.2020| Stefan Liebig
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Personnel news
Michael Krämer has been working as a research assistant at the SOEP since November 1, 2019, on the DFG-funded project, “Personality and social relationship dynamics: Short- and medium-term processes in daily life (DIPS),” with David Richter. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Clinical and Health Psychology, both from Freie Universität Berlin. ...
29.04.2020
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DIW focus
To cushion the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, central banks have taken far-reaching monetary policy measures. The US Federal Reserve has lowered its interest rates and, like the European Central Bank, has expanded its bond purchase programs. However, it is questionable whether these measures are having the desired effect of calming the markets and supporting the real economy. It is...
27.04.2020
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Report
The SOEP-IS Release 2018 provides household data from 1998 to bis 2018 and the data from the innovative modules 2011 to 2017.
We will be happy to receive your order. Please use our online form.
More information on data access, sample development, innovative modules and the data files included you will find here.
24.04.2020
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Personnel news
Melanie Koch, Research Associate in the International Economics Department and GC Class of 2015, has successfully defended her dissertation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Non-Standard Preferences and Beliefs in Financial Decision Making" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Lukas Menkhoff (DIW Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Georg Weizsäcker (HU).
We ...
14.04.2020
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Press Release
The coronavirus pandemic is triggering a severe recession in Germany. Economic output will shrink by 4.2 percent this year. This is what the leading economics research institutes expect in their spring report. For next year, they are forecasting a recovery and growth of 5.8 percent.
Gross domestic product is likely to have shrunk by 1.9 percent in the first quarter of 2020 alone. In the second quarter, ...
08.04.2020
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DIW focus
The coronavirus pandemic, which began in December 2019 and is currently spreading rapidly around the world, is having a noticeable impact on the economy and thus also on the real estate market. Since the measures to curb the spread are causing economic activities to decline massively, small and medium-sized companies in the service, hospitality, and transport sectors in particular, but the self...
06.04.2020
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
There are now several proposals for complementing the vigorous decision of the ECB to launch a mega ‘pandemic emergency purchase programme’ with fiscal and financial initiatives at the European level. These proposals sometimes overlap, which is a good sign of convergence. This column argues that they are also largely complementary to one another. Hence, it calls for a multi-instrument approach ...
06.04.2020| Marcel Fratzscher
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Report
Since the 1980s, especially in the new millenium, the issue of debt is increasingly the focus of political debates, as an analysis of parliamentary speeches since 1949 shows. More than ten years after the outbreak of the great financial crisis and almost ten years since the beginning of the European sovereignty debt crisis, there are not just questions about the opportunities and risks of debt but ...
25.03.2020| Dorothea Schäfer
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
It is in the interest of every EU member state that countries in the Union hit by the coronavirus are able to take the necessary measures to control the pandemic and deal with the economic consequences without being constrained, and to do so very quickly. This column proposes a Covid credit line in the European Stability Mechanism, with allocation across member states proportionate to the severity ...
23.03.2020| Marcel Fratzscher
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Statement
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today's announcements by the ECB as follows:
12.03.2020| Marcel Fratzscher
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Conference in Bremen, June, 16th, 2020 and Quarterly Journal of Economic Research (DIW Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung)
Description
Advances in payment technologies have considerably extended the way how we pay for transactions. While the majority of financial transactions has been even traditionally done by the means of non-cash (e.g. equity payments in mergers & acquisitions), nowadays ...
05.03.2020| Dorothea Schäfer
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Personnel news
Aline Zucco, part of the Gender Economics Research Group and GC Class of 2015, has successfully defended her dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Essays on Gender Pay Gaps and Wealth Concentration" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Silke Anger (IAB).
We congratulate Aline on her success and wish her all the best for her future ...
24.02.2020
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Report
Version SOEP v35 (data 1984-2018) is now available for analysis.
We have provided initial information on this version on our SOEP-Core website.And don't forget to order the current dataset if you have not already done so.
04.02.2020
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The alumna of the Graduate Center and assistant professor at the University of Bonn, Amelie Schiprowski, receives the award by the Joachim Herz Foundation for Best Junior Researcher. A ceremony will be held in Hamburg on March 19, 2020.
The prize honors her work on "The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance" with 25,000 euros in prize money. Congratulations for this award.
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27.01.2020| Amelie Schiprowski
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Jonas Jessen, doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center and research assistant in the Education and Family Department, receives the BeNA Innovative Research Award 2019. We congratulate Jonas for the award, which is presented annually by the Berlin Network for Employment Research (BeNA) for outstanding scientific contributions.
For his paper with the title "A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave ...
06.01.2020| Jonas Jessen