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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Two significant drivers of a person's financial situation in old age are pension income and costs for long-term care dependence. Both are unknown when the person makes her most important financial decisions, which makes it particularly interesting to understand her beliefs about them and how they influence her choices. In a representative survey, we elicit detailed expectations about individuals...
05.07.2023| Bruno Veltri (HU Berlin), Maximilian Blesch
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Journal of Monetary Economics
138 (2023), S. 87-103
| Oliver de Groot, Alexander Haas
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Do changes in religiosity beget changes in personality, or do changes in personality precede changes in religiosity? Existing evidence supports longitudinal associations between personality and religiosity at the between-person level, such that individual differences in personality predict subsequent individual differences in change in religiosity. However, no research to date has examined whether ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 2, S. 421-436
| Madeline R. Lenhausen, Ted Schwaba, Jochen E. Gebauer, Theresa Entringer, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
To phase out fossil fuels, energy systems must shift to renewable electricity as the main source of primary energy. In this paper, we analyze how electrification can support the integration of fluctuating renewables, like wind and PV, and mitigate the need for storage and thermal backup plants. Using a cost-minimizing model for system planning, we find substantial benefits of electricity demand in ...
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Energy
278 (2023), 127832, 12 S.
| Leonard Göke, Jens Weibezahn, Mario Kendziorski
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The rise of digitisation will cause a major upheaval in the manufacturing industries, bringing changes to traditional industrial location patterns as well. In order to understand the direction these structural changes are taking, this paper analyses the start-up activity in the industrial sector. The frontrunners are metropolitan regions and in particular major cities such as Berlin or Munich. Furthermore, ...
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Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal
16 (2023), 4, S. 385-395
| Martin Gornig
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DIW Weekly Report 26/27 / 2023
Over the past 20 years, China has granted a conspicuous amount of loans to African countries. New loan data show that compared to Western multilateral loans, Chinese loans have relatively high interest rates and shorter maturities, tend to be highly collateralized, and are volatile over time. Thus, Western loans are generally more likely to be in the economic interest of the borrowing country. Furthermore, ...
2023| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Annika Westen
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Press Release
Second survey wave of around 7,000 Ukrainians on their life situations and progress in social participation
For the second time, Ukrainians who fled because of the Russian war of aggression were interviewed about their life in Germany. Key results are: At the beginning of 2023, almost half of the respondents intend to stay in Germany in the longer term. The number of people in employment has increased ...
12.07.2023
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In recent years, researchers have grappled with the phenomenon that public demand for redistribution has not systematically increased in response to rising inequality. Meritocratic beliefs have been suggested as an explanation for this observation, because they can help legitimize inequalities. Past research has identified local-level inequality, segregation, or diversity as important factors for how ...
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Social Sciences
12 (2023), 7, 376, 29 S.
| Nicole Oetke, Maria Norkus, Jan Goebel