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Report
The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union will have far-reaching implications for the British financial sector. London is currently the financial capital of Europe, and the UK's financial institutions benefit from passport rights that allow them to provide their services throughout the Single Market. The UK plays two key roles in the European financial system: the first as a major hub for wholesale ...
05.08.2016
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Personnel news
Adrian Hille, who joined the DIW Graduate Center in October 2011 and worked at the German Socio-Economic Panel until February 2016, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin.His dissertation entitled “Developing skills through non-formal learning activities: four essays in the economics of education" was supervised by Prf. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW, Freie ...
05.08.2016
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Press Release
DIW Berlin’s experts identified the city’s untapped potential and formed recommendations based on a comprehensive study of its labor market, startup culture, and public investment patterns. The result: good potential, but productivity is low and innovation is weak. Overall, Berlin needs more fast-growing companies.
Has Berlin turned a corner? After a long period of stagnation, the city ...
25.07.2016
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Interview
Mr. Gornig, there appear to be some contradictions in Berlin’s economic situation. On the one hand, Berlin is a boomtown characterized by a flourishing tourism industry and ever-increasing real estate prices; on the other hand, unemployment is high and wages are low. What’s actually going on here?
Both impressions are correct. Berlin is experiencing massive growth at high rates, but the ...
25.07.2016
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Report
In Berlin, as elsewhere, public investment is critical to an individual’s life satisfaction and a prerequisite for positive economic development. There are many fields of activity for public investment. For instance, the tasks for Berlin include a sustainable transport concept that maintains and develops the local passenger transport network, a sustainable cycle concept, new schools need to be ...
20.07.2016
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Report
Over the past ten years, the number of employed in Berlin has increased more dynamically than it has anywhere else in the country, resulting in a decrease in unemployment. But because the city’s potential labor force has also experienced considerable growth, Berlin’s unemployment rate remains well above the national average. Since jobs requiring intermediate qualifications have become more ...
20.07.2016
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Report
Over the last 20 years, Berlin has developed into Germany’s self-employment capital and into a startup hub. A large number of innovative companies have been launched. The city has become an internationally renowned magnet for creative startups. Mainly using official statistical data, the present report shows that the startup trend in Berlin is above average compared to other major cities ...
20.07.2016
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Personnel news
Julian Baumann has successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Potsdam. The dissertation with the title “Four Essays in Innovation and Industrial Economics" was supervised by Alexander Kritikos (DIW, University of Potsdam) and Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam). The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates him on his success!
20.07.2016
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Report
Titled “Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: Privacy”, the annual conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies” (BCCP) took place on June 17 in Humboldt University Berlin’s Senate Hall.
The four panels of the conference featured several prominent figures from science and politics, including Hal Varian (Chief Economist, Google), Gerd ...
14.07.2016
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Report
Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up a distribution network means ...
13.07.2016
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Interview
Mr. Nardotto, you investigated the market for broadband communication networks using data from UK broadband. The incumbent broadband providers have a strong market position because they own the network. What options do new entries have to compete?
Historically, the EU implemented regulation because the authorities were afraid that the incumbents could transfer their monopolistic power into the new ...
13.07.2016
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Personnel news
Maximilian Podstawski, department of Forecasting and Economic Policy, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title “Unconventional Identification in Vectorautoregressive Models: Empirical Essays on Credit, Risk and Uncertainty" was supervised by Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW, Freie Universität Berlin) and Ferdinand Fichtner ...
12.07.2016
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Press Release
According to the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the uncertainty introduced by the results of the Brexit referendum could noticeably negatively impact on the German economy, resulting in a growth number for next year significantly lower than expected. In particular, the uncertainty about the UK’s economic prospects increased after the referendum, as mirrored in a flight to ...
11.07.2016
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Personnel news
Friederike Lenel, a doctoral student of the Development and Security Department, was awarded the best PhD Student Paper Award for her paper 'Insurance and Solidarity' at the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology Annual Conference 2016 in Wageningen.
The paper was written in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Susan Steiner as part of the research project 'Insurance and Private Transfers ...
11.07.2016
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Report
In this study, we analyze a client’s choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for cases. The distinguishing feature is that lawyers may submit bids with any fee arrangement they wish. We find robust evidence that bids offering hourly rates are less attractive to clients. Our findings tentatively contradict lawyers’ often-made argument that hourly rates are in a client’s ...
11.07.2016
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Interview
Mr. Seldeslachts, you analyzed a client’s choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for cases. What was the aim of your investigation?
The aim was to look at a completely different environment where lawyers could offer contracts to clients, who were then actually able to choose from among several lawyers and various kinds of contracts. [...]
The interview with Jo Seldeslachts, ...
11.07.2016
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Personnel news
Florian Mölders, a DIW Graduate Center alumnus, has received the best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the University of Duisburg-Essen for his doctoral thesis "Development, Trade Agreements and Knowledge Spillovers - Five empirical essays", submitted to the University of Duisburg-Essen in January 2014.
His thesis was supervised by Professor Ansgar Belke (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Professor ...
10.07.2016
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Personnel news
Nina Vogel worked in the SOEP up to April 2016 under a scholarship from the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE). She successfully defended her dissertation on "Contextual Effects on Individual Development of Subjective Well-being in the Second Half of Life" on July 10, 2016 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Advisor: Denis Gerstorf).
09.07.2016
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Report
On June 23, 2016, at the 12th International SOEP User Conference at the WZB in Berlin, the sixth Felix Büchel Award was awarded to Rainer Winkelmann.
More on this prize and Felix Büchel
More on the 2016 award ceremony
01.07.2016
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Personnel news
Jakob Miethe has been granted a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).
The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates him on his success!
01.07.2016