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Weekly Report
Private businesses’ nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were hit particularly hard. Despite efforts to stabilize the macroeconomic environment, there are only weak signs of recovery. Future prospects are not much better, as—with the exception of labor market regulations—the conditions for investments and business activities have ...
18.07.2018| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Personnel news
Verena Grass, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title " Aftermath of financial crises and natural disasters on public budgets" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Ronny Freier, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, TH Wildau).
We congratulate Verena on her success and wish ...
17.07.2018
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Personnel news
Annika Schnücker, who works at the Macroeconomics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Model Selection for Panel Vector Autoregressive Models" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz (Freie Universität Berlin).
We ...
17.07.2018
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Personnel news
Georg Camehl, who works at the Education and Family department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Non-cognitive Skills and the Quality of Early Education - Four Essays in Applied Microeconomics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Jan Marcus, Ph.D. (DIW ...
17.07.2018
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Personnel news
Melissa Newham (Firms and Markets Department and KU Leuven), was granted the ICM-FWO Fellowship by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), which is the most prominent funding channel for PhD students in Belgium. The funding period is one year renewable twice.
11.07.2018
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Weekly Report
The cost of renewable energy technology has plunged in recent years. But the extent to which electricity consumers can benefit from the reduced costs depends on the design of renewable remuneration mechanisms. Calculations of a financing model show that the current sliding premium is leading to increasingly higher risks for investments and in turn, increasing equity requirements. As a result, financing ...
11.07.2018| Nils May, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein
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Personnel news
Sascha Drahs, who worked at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays in Public Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DIW Berlin).
We congratulate Sascha on ...
10.07.2018
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Report
„Future of capital funded old age provision in Germany – sovereign wealth funds versus individual retirement accounts“Editors: Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka and Carsten SchröderIn May 2018, the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs duly convened the pension commission “reliable inter-generational contract (Verlässlicher Generationenvertrag)”. ...
09.07.2018| Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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Press Release
Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), will join the first meeting of the UN High-Level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs in New York on 9-10 July 2018.
The Board was set up to support the UN department of economics and social affairs (DESA) by providing advice on broad economic and social issues and making the diverse and valuable ...
06.07.2018
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Weekly Report
The construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany (Nord Stream 2) is very controversial for political, energy economic, and ecological reasons. The project owner and some European energy companies argue that it is a profitable, private-sector investment project that is necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe. However, DIW Berlin analyses show ...
04.07.2018| Franziska Holz, Claudia Kemfert, Anne Neumann
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Report
The current SOEP Wave Report 2017 has been published and is available for download.It contains a look at the important developments in the SOEP-Core samples, innovations at SOEP-IS, the current fieldwork reports of Kantar Public as well as projects and activities of the SOEP Research Data Center. A list of all SOEPpapers and SOEP Survey Papers as well as selected scientific publications of the last ...
02.07.2018
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Weekly Report
The principle of net neutrality was adopted by the European Union as a regulation promoting equality among all data packets in the Internet. Considering net neutrality from a purely economic viewpoint, however, the general possibility to prioritize data packets would likely lead to a more efficient use of existing network capacity. This is particularly applicable given the growth in data traffic and ...
21.06.2018
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Weekly Report
Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it comes to gigabit-capable connections—particularly in sparsely populated regions. On the demand side, ...
21.06.2018| Claus Michelsen
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Press Release
According to DIW Berlin estimates, the German economy should grow by 1.9 percent this year and 1.7 percent next year. The GDP growth forecast has thus decreased by 0.5 percentage points for this year and by 0.2 percentage points for the coming year compared to DIW Berlin’s March forecast. Essentially, this reflects the markedly increased uncertainty concerning the economic policy environment ...
15.06.2018
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Weekly Report
The political conditions for growth are currently dominated by increased uncertainty; this is particularly weighing on investment activity and slowing down the global economy. DIW Berlin is lowering its forecast slightly for this year and the next to 4.1 percent and 3.9 percent, respectively. However, global expansion appears to remain intact. In developed economies, primarily the good labor market ...
15.06.2018| Stefan Gebauer, Malte Rieth
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Weekly Report
Compared to last year, the German economy is weakening noticeably. Orders from abroad are decreasing and domestic companies are holding back on investments. However, capacity utilization remains high—also because the government will boost the incomes of private households next year. However, above all, incomes are rising noticeably due to the positive situation in the labor market: the unemployment ...
15.06.2018| Simon Junker, Claus Michelsen, Thore Schlaak
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Statement
Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), comments on the latest ECB council meeting as follows:
14.06.2018| Marcel Fratzscher
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Weekly Report
Reorganizing European fiscal policy is a main topic in current reform considerations. In particular, the creation of a European stabilization mechanism is being discussed. This study examines the macroeconomic effects of a stabilization fund, the economic consequences of which are analyzed in an equilibrium model. The model shows that a stabilization fund reduces economic fluctuations and is thus a ...
06.06.2018| Marius Clemens, Mathias Klein
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 119, June 2018.
We
provide you with information about the release 2016 of the SOEP-IS data, which are out now,
give you the opportunity to submit applications to an InGRID summer school on migration research at DIW Berlin,
invite you to an international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis (CNEF workshop) at DIW Berlin,
give ...
05.06.2018
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Report
The SOEP-IS Release 2016 provides household data from 1998 to bis 2016 and the data from the innovative modules 2011 to 2015.
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.
01.06.2018