In this article, we argue for a stronger convergence of economic and political science disciplines as a precondition to foster global climate cooperation. While classical economists emphasize the importance of incentives and fees as drivers for international cooperation, as well as free riding avoidance and reciprocity of contributions as principles thereof, political scientists are rather concerned ...
With Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede In times of an increasing scarcity of workers, Germany has in a rare move decreased the retirement age for a sizeable group of the workforce. This paper investigates the effect of this negative labor supply shock on firm and individual level outcomes using the universe of firms in the IEB as well as matched employer-employee data from...
We study how labor demand shocks affect workforce diversity in the absence of targeted diversity policies. Exploiting German reunification as a natural experiment, we analyze the academic labor market where nearly all social sciences professors in East Germany were replaced while STEM faculty remained largely unchanged. Using administrative data and a regional difference-in-differences design, we...
This paper constructs homogeneous time series of global household offshore wealth covering the 2001–2023 period, during which major international efforts were implemented to curb offshore tax evasion. We find that: (i) global offshore wealth remained broadly stable as a fraction of global GDP since 2001, following a sharp increase in the 1980s and 1990s; (ii) the location of offshore wealth changed ...
On December 8, 2025, DIW Berlin co-hosted the conference on the heat transition organized by the accompanying research BEWEGT on the EUREF campus. The conference brought together numerous contributions from political and social sciences and clearly showed how diverse social science research on the heating transition has become. The focus was on questions that are crucial for the success of the heating ...
Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little is known about age and gender differences across various narcissism measures. The present study investigated age and gender differences and their interactions across eight widely used narcissism instruments (i.e., Narcissistic ...
The Society of Friends of DIW Berlin (VdF) has provided support to DIW Berlin since 1951. Its objectives include developing partnerships with national and international enterprises and establishing cooperation between researchers and entrepreneurs. Members of the Society of Friends represent companies from all industry and service sector branches as well as the main business associations. Society members ...
