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Externe Monographien
Die digitale Ökonomie hat unzählige Märkte nachhaltig verändert. Insbesondere Online Plattformen bieten eine noch nie dagewesene Auswahl an Produkten, gekoppelt mit innovativer Technologie, die das Zusammenfinden von Angebot und Nachfrage vereinfacht, Vertrauen aufbaut und Suchkosten reduziert. Gleichzeitig hat die neuartige Natur dieser Plattformen dazu geführt, dass sie teilweise mit den etablierten ...
Berlin:
TU Berlin,
2020,
XIII, 157 S.
| Kevin Ducbao Tran
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Externe Monographien
This dissertation studies how insights from behavioral economics affect the economic analysis of public policy. The thesis consists of four chapters that make use of different methods: laboratory experiments, quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods, as well as theoretical analyses.The first chapter investigates if social image concerns affect the take-up of a redistributive transfer. ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2020,
182 S.
| Renke Schmacker
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Externe Monographien
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the effects and transmission mechanisms of monetary policy to the macroeconomy, and the role of financial frictions in modeling the business cycle. The first essay focuses on the question of how to include financial sector dynamics into macroeconomic models in order to improve their efficacy for macroeconomic policy analysis. We augment a ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2020,
XXVIII, 167, XL S.
| Martin Ignacio Harding Affeld
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Personnel news
Sabine Zinn was appointed Professor of Social Science Methods with a focus on survey methodology at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on November 4, 2020. We congratulate her and are pleased that she will continue to serve as a member of the SOEP Board of Directors and as head of the division of Survey Methodology and Management. SOEP Director Stefan Liebig commented, “We are also very pleased ...
16.11.2020
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While the economic voting hypothesis is a well-researched approach to explain behavior at the ballot box, a broader perspective of economic, social and environmental issues regarding a government’s chances to get re-elected is still missing in the literature. In this context, this paper makes use for the first time of the Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the comprehensive ...
In:
Sustainability
12 (2020), 16, 6445, 14 S.
| Christian Kroll, Vera Zipperer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this paper, we ...
In:
Environment International
146 (2021), 106205, 26 S.
| Daniela V. Pachito, Frank Pega, Jelena Bakusic, Hannes Kröger ...
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SOEPpapers 1111 / 2020
This paper explores the methodological issues to take into account when using SOEP as a database for calculating a measure of housing costs and housing affordability. For this purpose, we focus on the evolution of housing costs for households headed by elderly people between 1998 and 2018. Our review yields two clear conclusions: (1) that SOEP represents a valuable source of data for calculating household ...
2020| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Laura Romeu Gordo
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SOEPpapers 1112 / 2020
Commonly described as the “gender care gap”, there is a persistent gender difference in the division of domestic responsibilities in most developed countries. We provide novel evidence on the short- and long-run effects of an exogenous shock on paternal availability, through a job loss, on the allocation of domestic work within couples. We find that paternal child care and housework significantly increase ...
2020| Juliane Hennecke, Astrid Pape
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Understanding the Granger causality directions between electricity production (EP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is helpful for policymakers in order to design, redesign, and implement effective energy policies. Although there are plenty of studies on this issue, no consistent conclusion about said relationship exists. In this paper, we provide an updated analysis for the case of Mexico in the context ...
In:
Energy Policy
142 (2020), 111476, 8 S.
| Ricardo Massa, Juan Rosellón
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Report
Clear policy strategies are essential to guide corporate decision making and effective policy to achieve decarbonisation of European industry. This brief provides a much-needed overview of the current policy landscape in five EU Member States (Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain) by investigating how the path to climate-neutral industrial production is reflected in their key national plans. ...
12.11.2020| Olga Chiappinelli