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Personnel news
Julia Rechlitz has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from August 2017 on.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
12.07.2017
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Personnel news
Stefan Seifert and Marica Valente have been granted a research scholarship from the American Association of Economists (AAWE), as well as receiving a prize for their paper "An offer that you can’t refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy." Both were presented at the annual AAWE conference in Pedua, Italy.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates them ...
11.07.2017
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Report
Our new brochure “Living in Germany” offers a compact source of information about the kinds of research currently being done with SOEP data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and key findings from these studies. In the brochure, we present a selection of research results with significant implications for society and policy making from the more than 7,000 papers published to date using ...
10.07.2017
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Personnel news
Michael Hachula, who works at the department of Forecasting and Economic Policy, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays on Unconventional Monetary Policy, Inflation Expectations, and Commodity Prices" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Christian J. Offermanns (Deutsche ...
30.06.2017
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Personnel news
Benjamin Beckers, who works at the Macroeconomics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Booms and Busts in Asset Prices: Risk Modeling, Bubble Detection, and the Role of Monetary Policy" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Bernoth ...
30.06.2017
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Personnel news
Nuria Boot has been granted a scholarship from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
30.06.2017
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Personnel news
Nils May, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department, has received a Student Paper Award from the International Association for Energy Economics. The award was presented for his paper "The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices" at the IAEE International Conference in Singapur.
30.06.2017
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Report
Just out: the 2016 SOEP Wave Report, with a look at important developments in the SOEP studies over the last year, fieldwork reports from Kantar Public, projects and activities of the SOEP Research Data Center, and selected publications using SOEP data.
Download here.
27.06.2017
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Economic Bulletin
Demographic projections for Germany indicate a drop in the population of many regions by 2030. This is likely to have an impact on the real estate market. Our report presents the result of a model calculation of asking prices for residential real estate in Germany up to 2030 based on market data from empirica-systeme GmbH and a population projection from the Bertelsmann Foundation. Depending on the ...
26.06.2017| Markus M. Grabka
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Interview
Mr. Grabka, you have studied the effects of the demographic shift on residential real estate prices in Germany. What does population growth in the coming decades look like?
We based our work on the population forecast coordinated by the German Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt), which currently extends to 2060. According to that projection, the population of Germany will shrink by ...
26.06.2017| Markus M. Grabka
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Economic Bulletin
Although the housing prices in the 127 largest German cities have surged strongly in recent years, there is still no sign of a Germanywide housing bubble. In comparison with 2009, the price of condominiums has risen by around 55 percent. Single-family houses cost between 38 and 45 percent more in 2016 than seven years prior, and building lot prices have risen by around 63 percent. The study at hand ...
26.06.2017| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Claus Michelsen
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Economic Bulletin
DIW Berlin's economic forecast by Ferdinand Fichtner, Guido Baldi, Karl Brenke, Christian Dreger, Hella Engerer, Marcel Fratzscher, Stefan Gebauer, Simon Junker, Claus Michelsen, Malte Rieth, Thore Schlaak, and Kristina van Deuverden
Germany’s economic output is now experiencing significant and steady increases for the fourth year in a row – a trend that will also continue throughout the ...
21.06.2017| Claus Michelsen
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Economic Bulletin
Global economic output is expected to grow by 3.7 percent this year, and with a slightly stronger dynamic in the coming year; both predictions match the figures proposed in DIW Berlin’s spring forecast, even though the year started off somewhat weaker than expected. But overall, economic recovery continues. Despite rising inflation rates, private consumption remains one of the main drivers in ...
21.06.2017| Claus Michelsen
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Economic Bulletin
The German economy is in the midst of a robust economic cycle: the number of employed persons has reached historic highs and is still increasing powerfully; private household income is on the rise; and the public coffers are overflowing. Inflation is rising only gradually, partly because capacities are not overburdened. The mood is bright among consumers and firms alike, with economic development distributed ...
21.06.2017| Claus Michelsen
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Interview
Mr. Fichtner, is the German economy still on a path of growth?
Yes—in fact, the German economy is developing quite powerfully. Growth in the first half of the year has been respectable, but we are expecting an even more significant expansion in the coming quarters, especially in light of the favorable labor market development. [...]
21.06.2017| Ferdinand Fichtner
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Personnel news
Tomaso Duso, Head of the Department Firms and Markets at DIW Berlin, and Hannes Ullrich, Research Associate at the Department Firms and Markets, were nominated Research Fellows in the newly established Research Area Economics of Digitization of the CESifo research network.
The Economics of Digitization Area of the CESifo research network is organised by Stephen P. Ryan, Olin Business School. The area ...
15.06.2017
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Personnel news
Mathias Huebener, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Department of Education and Family, has received the BeNA Innovative Research Award 2017 for his paper “Parental education and child health behaviour: Causal evidence from changes in compulsory schooling.” The paper was presented at the 2017 BeNA Summer Workshop.
13.06.2017
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Statement
DIW President Marcel Fratzscher on today's ECB Governinmg Council's decisions:
08.06.2017| Marcel Fratzscher
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Report
On Tuesday, May 23, the very first DIW Women's Finance Summit – an event with high-ranking participants and exciting discussions – took place. A review of the event with photos and videos of the panels and keynote speeches can be found on our website.
06.06.2017| Elke Holst
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Economic Bulletin
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing than men to compete against others, they are just as willing as men are to take on the challenge of ...
31.05.2017| Johanna Mollerstrom, Katharina Wrohlich