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DIW Weekly Report 51/52 / 2022
Research and development (R&D) expenditure in Germany decreased by 5.3 percent overall in 2020 compared to 2019. While the OECD countries actually slightly increased their R&D expenditure on average for the first time in a crisis-ridden year, it declined more sharply in Germany compared to the financial crisis of 2009; German industry, and here the automotive sector, suffered particularly. The decline ...
2022| Heike Belitz
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Research Project
This project will create a methodological framework for embedding a transition model with free (unknown) parameters in a dynamic, small-scale microsimulation. A transition model of this kind will also enable latent and/or only partially observed processes to be represented in a microsimulation. The key element for embedding a transition model with free parameters is a metamodel (or statistical...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Conference
Financial systems have developed rapidly in many developing countries. These changes increase the need for research into their effects, especially with a focus on financial inclusion / individual responses.To this end DIW Berlin will host a workshop in the field of “Finance and Development” to be held in Berlin on April 27 in the afternoon and full day April 28, 2023. The workshop will not have...
27.04.2023| Xavier Giné, World Bank
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Workshop
The 3rd annual Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History is being organized by the German Institute for Economic Research. The aim is to bring together female academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the fields of Macroeconomics, Finance, and Economic History.
03.05.2023| Elena Carletti, Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, Claudia Steinwender
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Research Project
The re-use of research data is an integral part of research practice in the social and economic sciences. To find relevant data, researchers need adequate search facilities. However, a comprehensive, thematic search for research data that is not limited to individual survey programs is difficult. Because individual survey programs use their own terminology to describe their data and the...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Publication
The scales manual has now been extended and updated with survey contents including 2020 (v37).
The scales manual has been converted to the SOEPlong variable scheme and, in addition to being published in the SOEP Survey Paper, is also integrated in the SOEPcompanion.
09.01.2023| Theresa M. Entringer, Florian Griese
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DIW Discussion Papers 2030 / 2023
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...
2023| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodriguez, Claudia Stier
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We investigate the role of monetary policy in stock price misalignments and explore whether central banks can attenuate excessive mispricing as suggested by the proponents of a “leaning against the wind” monetary policy. Decomposing stock prices into expected excess dividends, an equity risk premium, and a mispricing component, we find that prices fall more strongly in response to an increase in the ...
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
56 (2024), 7, S. 1887-1904
| Kerstin Bernoth, Benjamin Beckers
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DIW Discussion Papers 2020 / 2022
How do commodity price movements affect sovereign default risk over the long-run? Using a novel dataset covering 41 countries and 42 raw commodities, we take a comprehensive long-run view to shed light on this so far understudied relationship between commodity risk and sovereign risk across 150 years. We create a novel country-specific commodity price index that allows us to take advantage of countries’ ...
2022| Angélica Domínguez-Cardoza, Adelina Garamow, Josefin Meyer
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Report
On January 18, January 25, and February 1, 2023 the online workshop "SOEPcampus: Learn to use SOEP over lunch" takes place again. This online workshop series offers a short online introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview ...
23.12.2022| Sandra Bohmann, Janina Britzke