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Laura Schmitz has successfully defended her dissertation

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.

Energy Transition Metals: Bottleneck for Net-Zero Emissions?

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 ...

SOEP @ 10th ESRA Conference 2023 in Milan, Italy

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.

SOEP @ 10th ESRA Conference 2023 in Milan, Italy

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 ...

Graduate Center Courses

Semester Courses Course History SoSe 2023 WS 2023 / 2024 SoSe 2024 WS 2024 / 2025 SoSe 2025 WS 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 the Graduate Center at gradcenter@diw.de . The ...

Agglomeration or Market Access? The Defining Factors of Firms' Location Choice

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. ...

On the Way to Climate Neutrality: Scenarios Can Facilitate the Transition of Companies and the Financial Sector

In its Federal Climate Change Act, Germany has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2045. To do so, companies from both the industrial and the service sectors must adjust their production and business practices, and financial institutions must adjust their evaluation criteria. In many cases, this requires a new strategic direction and investments in climate-neutral products, business models, ...

Illustrative Case Examples for the Coordinated Use of Models (Deliverable D5.4)

Estimating the Marginal Costs of Road Renewals: Evidence from a Duration Approach

Within an analytical approach that mirrors the relationship between road deterioration, traffic load, and road renewal, we estimate the marginal costs of road renewals as part of a social marginal cost scheme for road charging. Based on a comprehensive data set for German motor ways, we estimate a Weibull dura tion model with shared frailties that account for unobserved heterogeneity, including covariates ...

SOEP Annual Report 2022 is published!

New data, new projects, new faces: In 2022, a lot of new things happened at the Socio-Economic Panel. Last year's annual report provides again a compact and clear insight into all the SOEP's activities on topics such as forced migration, wealth, new samples, pension data, and mental health as well as on the fieldwork carried out by infas. The report is available online free of charge. We would also ...