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Research Project
We analyzed the revenue and economic effects of business and income taxation and developed microsimulation models in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry of Finance. The models were used for research projects and evaluation requests on behalf of the ministry. The research cooperation ended in 2011.
Recurring Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
We analyzed the economic impact and institutional issues of wealth taxation (recurrent wealth tax, inheritance and gift tax, local taxes on land and buildings, one-time capital levy, real estate appraisal).
Recurring Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The goal of this project is to empirically analyze the work incentive and employment effects of earnings-related subsidies in the presence of high structural unemployment when labor market flexibility is hindered by wage rigidity related to institutional factors, in particular minimum wages and means-tested income support for unemployed people. We specify and estimate a structural microeconometric...
Recurring Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
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Research Project
Competence in financial decision making is becoming increasingly important. However, most individuals make suboptimal financial decisions. Project A03 examines the hypothesis that these poor decisions may be (partially) caused by behavioral distortions and we explore how these interact with a person’s level of financial literacy. In particular, the project will test the impact of (i) biased...
Completed Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
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Research Project
MICROCON is a five-year research programme funded by the European Commission. The programme takes an innovative micro level, multidisciplinary approach to studying the conflict cycle. Its main purpose is to promote understanding of individual and group interactions leading to and resulting from violent mass conflicts, aiming to better inform conflict policy and place individuals and groups at the...
Completed Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
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Research Project
EUSECON (A New Agenda for European Security Economics) is a four-year collaborative research project that analyzes the causes, dynamics, and long-term effects of both human-induced insecurity threats and European security policies.The EUSECON project broadly defines "insecurity" to include terrorism and organized crime. The project's focus is on the human drivers of insecurity. The consortium...
Completed Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
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Research Project
With the objective to improve the efficiency und effectiveness of the European emissions trading system (EU ETS) the Commission has launched a Europe-wide review process for the amendment of the EU ETS Directive (2003/87/EC). Important topics are the scope of the Directive, the robust compliance and enforcement, further harmonization and increased predictability, and the linking with emissions...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
AIM-AP was an integrated programme of research and development funded by the European Commission (Sixth Framework Programme) aimed at improving the comparability, scope and applicability of tools, methods and data for the measurement of income and the analysis of the effects of policies on inequality, poverty and social inclusion. It started in February 2006 and finished in January 2009.
Further...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
ADAM is an integrated research project running from 2006 to 2009 that will lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies. ADAM will support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol and will inform the emergence of new adaptation strategies for Europe.The core objectives are:
to assess...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
AIM ist ein Projekt im sechsten europäischen Forschungsrahmenprogramm des Forschungsnetzwerks ENEPRI. Ein Modul des Projekts wird von der Abteilung Staat in Kooperation mit den Forschungseinrichtungen Federaal Planbureau (FPB) aus Belgien und Istituto di Studi e Analisi Economica (ISAE) aus Italien bearbeitet.
Mit den Kooperationspartnern entwickelt die Abteilung Staat das dynamische...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The project takes its starting point in the assumption that the diversity and cultural change resulting from immigration cannot be measured solely in terms of knowledge and skills, but are fundamentally connected with values, attitudes, and emotions on the part of both immigrants and local populations. Based on approaches from the research on integration and acculturation in the social sciences...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
This project focuses on the question whether increasing life expectancy is related to extending life in better health as bio-metric research in the US suggests. If this is also true for Europe, it will have great impact on the health and long-term care utilisation as well as on the retirement decision and the sustainability of social security systems. The impact of a higher level of healthiness...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
Expenditure on medical treatment has risen as a proportion of national income throughout the European Union. There is a particular concern that, with an ageing population and therefore the prospect of more elderly people, the pressures for expenditure on health care will escalate. This issue is of concern both in its own terms and because of its fiscal implications. This project will refine...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The size and structure of the population as well as of households are main determinants of the economic development and the labour force. The demographic change has an impact on the sustainability of the social security system, the educational system and the housing market. In view of the importance of the demographic development on all parts of the society DIW developed three forecasting models,...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The objective of the study is to analyze the performance of the official statistics for the measurement the productivity of knowledge-intensive services. The study will be executed in two steps. In the first step, concept of productivity measurement common in official statistics is discussed critically, and the development of productivity measured on this basis in the field of the knowledge...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Australia has begun investing heavily in the collection of population‑wide longitudinal survey data. Most of that effort has focused first on collection and dissemination and second on analysis, with scant attention paid to the quality of data collected. This is unfortunate given that longitudinal surveys exhibit many problems (e.g., attrition, panel conditioning, and seam effects) that are not...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The post-war baby boom is turning into a grandparent boom, putting a triple stress on long-term care (LTC) provisions: increased numbers of elderly, increased survival of these elderly and increased survival of frail, disabled elderly through improved care and health care. Epidemiological trends such as smoking cessation and obesity will increase care dependence. At the same time the supply of...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
This project reviewed the adjustments of the feed-in tariffs for new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly since 2009, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the remuneration level for new installations in response to deployment volumes. The project developed an analytic model to simulate weekly installations of PV systems...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The project examines the extent to which bank lending has changed since the financial crisis and which factors play a role. One focus of the analysis is the impact of unconventional monetary policy on lending behavior and profitability in the banking sector.
Completed Project| Macroeconomics
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Research Project
The question of what banking sector diversity actually means and what it impliesfor the funding of small and medium sized firms (SMEs) and for banking sectorstability is still open, and this is particularly relevant since the financial crisis hashit the European countries. In fact, the crisis raised doubts if previous researchthat finds comparative advantages for more concentrated banking sectors...
Completed Project| Macroeconomics