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The Effects of Government Interventions on Housing Market: A Meta-Study of Empirical Literature

Housing markets are affected by a wide variety of factors. Among them, governmental regulations play an important role. Besides desired effects, all these policies exert a number of side effects, even offsetting the desired effects. In addition, different policies can cancel out each other. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the effects of individual policies and the composite effects resulting ...

SOEP-Core – 2025: Report of Survey Methodology and Fieldwork

District Heating in the Heat Transition: Investment, Regulation and Energy Prices (FIRE)

The bridge project ‘District Heating in the Heat Transition: Investment, Regulation and Energy Prices (FIRE)’, run by the Climate Policy and Energy, Transport and Environment departments, examines the compatibility of district heating's pricing structure with its key role in the heat transition. The aim of the research project is to gain a better understanding of the effect of decarbonization and...

Photovoltaic Manufacturing in the EU Requires a Unified Industrial Strategy

Youth Assault Victimization as a Two-Generation Shock: Evidence on Parental Spillovers

When a child is the victim of a non-domestic violent assault, how do their parents respond? Using linked population-wide administrative data from New Zealand and a stacked difference-in-differences design, we show that youth assault is a two-generation shock. Over the two years following an assault, parental earnings fall by 2.2 percent and stress-related medication dispensing rises by 11 percent....

Photovoltaic Manufacturing in the EU Requires a Unified Industrial Strategy

Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity is critical for providing Europe with a steady supply of decarbonized energy at competitive prices. To ensure the supply of solar PV modules, the European Union (EU) aims to meet 40 percent of its demand with domestic products by 2030. To achieve this goal, EU Member States no longer need to base their support for PV projects solely on price under the NZIA, but can ...

Klare Rahmenbedingungen für EU-PV-Hersteller jetzt umsetzen: Interview von Thibault Deletombe

Data as a Key to Better Crisis Preparedness

For more than 40 years, SOEP has been collecting information on living conditions, health, and social factors from approximately 30,000 individuals. Based on these data, Sabine Zinn develops synthetic health data that links different information sources and enable realistic scenario modeling. These models help researchers understand human behavior during crises and assess potential impacts at an early ...

Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks

We study the role of international financial integration in buffering natural disaster shocks, using a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. Natural disasters are largely unpredictable and unrelated to the state of financial integration. We document that integration improves the absorption of such shocks: Output, consumption, and investment are significantly higher after a natural disaster ...

Estimating Green Premiums Using Internal Carbon Prices

Empirical evidence on price premiums for green intermediate products is scarce, especially for energy-intensive basic materials. Evidence on such green premiums is relevant, as they may affect companies incentives to invest in green production technologies. Moreover, green premiums are important for the design of green support programmes, as support levels could be adjusted for companies’ green revenues. ...