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Merger Remedies and Bargaining Power in the Coffee Market

This paper analyzes a merger of large manufacturers with divestiture in the French coffee market. In contrast to previous approaches used to study the effects of upstream divestitures on prices and welfare, we model the vertical market structure. First, our results show that the standard policy recommendation to require divestiture to small recipient firms may not hold when asymmetric bargaining power ...

Power Sector Effects of Alternative Options for De-fossilizing Heavy-duty Vehicles - Go Electric, and Charge Smartly

Various options are discussed to de-fossilize heavy-duty vehicles, including battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), electric road systems (ERS), and indirect electrification via hydrogen fuel cells or e-fuels. We investigate their power sector implications in future scenarios of Germany, with high renewable energy shares, using an open- source capacity expansion model and route-based truck traffic data. ...

Economic outlook: consumer spending and growth strengthen the economy

Register now for the online workshop series SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

In October 2024, the online workshop series "SOEPcampus: Learn to Use the SOEP Over Lunch" returns. This workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) study on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation. To ...

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices

The price for institutional long-term care is a central determinant of the demand for formal and informal long-term care. In this paper, we show how macroeconomic conditions affect these prices. The analysis is based on administrative data that contains rich information on the universe of nursing homes and ambulatory care services and about all recipients of long-term care benefits in Germany. For ...

Restrictions to Civil Liberties in a Pandemic and Satisfaction with Democracy

In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the trade-off between civil liberties and public health. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders ...

Codevelopment of Life Goals and the Big Five Personality Traits across Adulthood and Old Age

Since the new millennium, research in the field of personality development has focused on the stability and change of basic personality traits. Motivational aspects of personality and their longitudinal association with basic traits have received comparably little attention. In this preregistered study, we applied bivariate latent growth curve modeling to investigate the codevelopment of nine life ...

In memoriam Hans-Jürgen Krupp

*April 15, 1933 – †July 29, 2024 The founder of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 91. Following his studies in industrial engineering, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1969 and headed the university from 1975 to 1979. From 1972, he headed the ...

In memoriam Hans Jürgen-Krupp

*April 15, 1933 – †July 29, 2024 The founder of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 91. Following his studies in industrial engineering, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1969 and headed the university from 1975 to 1979. From 1972, he headed the ...

Multi-mode Trade Policy Retaliation

Previous studies have found evidence that countries may choose to retaliate against countries for certain trade actions.  What has not been empirically examined is the use of multi-modal retaliation in trade policy. Using an exporter-importer-sector panel of antidumping (AD), sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS), and technical barriers to trade (TBT) actions between 1995 and 2019, we find evidence of...