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Research Project
Organizing long-term care (LTC) is one of the most pressing challenges for the coming years, both societally and politically. Across OECD countries, the proportion of individuals aged 80 and above will increase from an average of nearly five to almost ten percent of the population by 2050 (OECD, 2020). This rapid aging will have sizable implications for the demand and provision of LTC. The issue...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, S. 623-641
| Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino, Agnese Vitali
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The energy crisis and the accelerated transition to climate neutrality result in a shift from the traditional energy trilemma to an “energy quartet” across Europe. Firstly, the criteria of affordability, previously focused on short-term price developments, broadens to reliable affordability including in crises. Secondly, clean energy traditionally focused on clean production now extends to clean energy ...
In:
Energy Policy
180 (2023), 113691, 7 S.
| Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein, Mats Kröger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Negative policy rates can convince markets that deposit rates will remain lower-for-longer, even when current deposit rates are constrained by zero. This is the signalling channel of negative interest rates. We analyse the optimality and effectiveness of negative rates in the context of this novel transmission channel. In a stylized model, we prove two necessary conditions for optimality: time-consistency ...
In:
Journal of Monetary Economics
138 (2023), S. 87-103
| Oliver de Groot, Alexander Haas
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Personnel news
Congratulations to Laura Schmitz for her dissertation defense. Her dissertation was titled 'Understanding the Impact of Education and Environmental Policy on Human Capital Formation: Four Essays in Applied Economics', Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt were her supervisors. Laura will not be leaving us, but is now starting as a PostDoc in the Energy, Transport, Environment Department.
30.06.2023
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The energy transition requires substantial amounts of metals, including copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Are these metals a bottleneck? We identify metal-specific demand shocks, estimate supply elasticities, and study the price impact of the transition in a structural scenario analysis. Prices of these four metals would reach previous historical peaks but for an unprecedented, sustained period ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
22 (2024), 1, S. 200–229
| Lukas Boer, Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
From July 17 to 21, the tenth European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference will take place in Milan, Italy. 12 SOEP researchers will organize sessions or present their work in more than 20 sessions. An overview of the SOEP presentations can be found here.
SOEP will also have its own exhibition stand - so come by and learn more about news from the institute and the SOEP data world.
29.06.2023
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
From July 17 to 21, the tenth conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will take place in Milan, Italy. 12 SOEP researchers will organize sessions or present their work in more than 20 sessions. An overview of the SOEP presentations can be found online.
SOEP will also have its own exhibition stand - so come by and learn more about SOEP data and find the newest publications di ...
29.06.2023
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Graduate Center
Semester Courses
Course History
Summer term 2023
Winter term 2023 / 2024
Summer term 2024
Winter term 2024 / 2025
Summer term 2025
Winter term 2025 / 2026
Summer term 2026
You can find a list of courses offered by DIW Berlin and universities in the current semester. If you want to register for a course or have any further questions, please send an email with your name and university affiliation to ...
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DIW Discussion Papers 2045 / 2023
As research indicates a gap between complex scientific measures of accessibility and simpler proxies used by firms, this paper analyses the impact of several market access indicators on the location decision of firms. It compares the role of inter- and intra-industry agglomeration as proxies of access with a newly developed gravity-based indicator incorporating transport distances and industry relations. ...
2023| Dennis Gaus, Georg Hirte