Research Projects

Internationalisation of R&D in multinational corporations

The motives, strategies and repercussions of the internationalisation of R&D in multinational corporations will be analysed and evaluated from a German viewpoint. The study incorporates an international comparison of R&D among German companies abroad and an international comparison of R&D among foreign companies in Germany. The evolution of R&D expenditure and R&D...

Investigation on the energy savings potential of the successor model from 2013 to the tax incentives on energy and electricity tax for companies in the manufacturing industry as well as in agriculture ...

The regulator has granted firms in the industry as well as agriculture and forestry sectors energy tax privileges under surplus settlement that require an appropriate quid pro quo in order to fulfil state aid regulations. This study quantifies energy saving potentials and discusses four scenarios how the privilege may be coupled to fulfilling energy efficiency targets. We stress the role of energy...

Investors' Expectations: Measuring their Nature and Effect

The research project investigates the role of expectations in financial decisions by asking two separate empirical questions. First, what systematic patterns appear in the expectations that the investor holds about relevant random variables? Second, can we establish that her expectations play a causal role for choices? The main tool in addressing these questions is the collection of data from...

Inzidenzanalyse

Junior research group “Time policy II – how can social policy help to manage critical phases over the life course?”

The research group is concerned with time policy as one element of social policy. Time policy allows individuals and households to cope with time conflicts during critical phases in their employment biographies. Time policy includes measures and benefits that enable employees to use their time resources according to their preferences, irrespective of their income. We identify critical phases in...

KonsortSWD

KonsortSWD - Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Sciences in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)Researchers in the social, behavioral, educational, and economic sciences work with different types of data that are considered particularly sensitive due to legal or ethical restrictions and that were not originally collected for research purposes. KonsortSWD...

Labor Market Evaluation of Start-Up Programs

The aim of this project is to evaluate two start-up subsidies for unemployed people in Germany on the basis of a rich data set that combines register data and survey data from two follow-up interviews. This merged data set allows us to estimate treatment effects for participants up to 28 months after the start of the respective program and to measure these effects in terms of three outcome...

Labour market responses to taxes: a structural approach

We propose to investigate the long-run impact of taxes on employment, working hours and wages, contrasting these key labour market outcomes in France and Germany. Few studies have considered these margins jointly when assessing tax incidence. In order to do so, we offer to develop a realistic equilibrium model that draws on the most recent contributions in the microeconomic job search literature....

Leibniz Network "Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences"

This research initiative is supported by the Leibniz Association within the "Pakt für Forschung und Innovation". The network consists of a co-operation of economic and psychological expertise of leading European research institutions (Centre for the Economics of Education at the London School of Economics; German Socio-Economic Panel Study at the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin;...

Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Nachhaltige Lebensmittelproduktion und gesunde Ernährung"

Life Course, Ageing and Well-Being (LAW)

The Berlin network composed of DZA, SOEP and DRV-Bund is conducting a joint research project which will run until 2012 dealing with life courses and their effects on the old age provision of baby boomers. This project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in the program "Individual and Societal Perspectives of Aging" (link to PDF-file). The biographies of the German Baby boomers (born between 19...

Life-course Income Dynamics (LINDY)

Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate, provoked by the recent rapid increases in cross-sectional inequality. While much has been learnt from the literature on inequality, Deaton (2015) has outlined in his Nobel lecture several imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing...

Linked Open Research Data for Social Science Pilot Study (LORDpilot)

The re-use of research data is an integral part of research practice in the social and economic sciences. To find relevant data, researchers need adequate search facilities. However, a comprehensive, thematic search for research data that is not limited to individual survey programs is difficult. Because individual survey programs use their own terminology to describe their data and the...

Local public goods

The aim of the project is to study the economic impact of PIGS provision. The analysis draws on rich data for PIGS in German municipalities. In a first step, we empirically determine the effect of PIGS on corporate location and investment decisions. In doing so, we account for the direct impact as well as for externalities of PIGS provision on corporate activity in neighboring jurisdictions. The...

Longitudinal Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany (LARGE)

The project “Longitudinal Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany” (LARGE) is developing a set of indicators of refugees’ physical and mental health based on data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. Researchers in the project are also studying what role these indicators play over time in refugees’ integration into German society. LARGE is a...

Loss Trends of Natural Catastrophes – A New Approach to the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change

Frequency and damage of weather-related natural catastrophes increase clearly, as for example the annual statistics of Munich Reinsurance show. The causes are well-known. There is the socio-economic development and the natural and man-made caused climate change. So far it is not however satisfying clarified to what extent frequency and damage can be attributed to the particular causes....

Macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices – state dependence and implications for the conduct of monetary policy

Noticing the adoption of unconventional measures of monetary policy in major currency areas on the one hand and continuing globalisation and integration of international financial markets on the other hand, we analyse the linkages between monetary policy and asset prices. Apart from excess asset valuation, we consider second order dynamics (uncertainties, tail risks) as specific threats to...

Mainstreaming of Climate Risks and Chances in the Finance Sector

Enterprises in the finance sector recently show more interest to include climate related opportunities and risks into their business processes. Climate change not only passively influences the finance sector, but the sector also has the possibilities to influence other economic sectors though an appropriate signaling. The question is how to enhance existing and gain new competitive advantages. The...

Market Power in Vertically Related Markets

Our project aims at extending the industrial organization research on market power in vertical relations. We focus on specific areas of vertical relationships which are also high on the agenda of contemporary competition policy; in particular, vertical restraints, buyer power, one-stop shopping behavior inducing complementarities in consumer markets as well as problems of product quality and...

Market Structure and Organization in Agri-Food Value Chains: An Application to the German Dairy Sector

Subproject of the DFG Research Unit SiAg 2010-2013 The German dairy sector is facing a period of significant changes. The number of both farmers as well as dairy processors has drastically declined over the last few decades. The wide range of literature tackling adjustment processes in agricultural sectors often ignores retail activities. As long as the retail sector was highly fragmented and...