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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
The European Commission commissioned an international consortium including the DIW Berlin with a background study on State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy. The results of the study are meant to support the Commission in the revision of the EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG). One key focus of the study was to assess the current rules...
21.05.2021| Joanna Piechucka, DIW Berlin
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Venture capital (VC) is often seen as an instrumental tool that allows many start-ups to pursue innovation with the potential to shake-up current markets and/or to replace incumbents. Using a highly granular, project-level dataset from preclinical diabetes R&D, this paper shows that VCs actively steer the direction of R&D and streamline activities of research focused firms (pipeline firms)...
02.07.2021| Jan Málek, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
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Dossiers
Dossiers. The dossiers select the most important publications, statements, multimedia articles and general information on current or socially relevant topics.
The contributions come from the DIW Berlin research staff and are continuously updated. You can find further topics of DIW Berlin in the topic module on the homepage or in the topic filters of the search. Dossiers
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DIW Discussion Papers 1944 / 2021
This paper evaluates the temporary VAT reduction introduced by the German government over the third and fourth quarter of 2020 as most controversial part of the COVID-19 stimulus package. Critics argue that VAT reductions are ineffective because of limited pass-through of temporary measures to consumer prices and in presence of lockdown measures. Advocates emphasize positive effects on durables and ...
2021| Marius Clemens, Werner Röger
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Research Project
The Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Rationality and Competition” combines the research programs of behavioral and neoclassical economists to study applied economic questions that are of high policy relevance. The focus CRC TRR 190 is on the economic behavior and performance of individuals and firms: How do systematic biases in expectations, decision processes, and preferences affect the...
Completed Project| Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program at the end of March 2020 offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing...
07.05.2021| Caroline Stiel, DIW Berlin
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature. We investigate the potential impact of grandparental care on children's...
12.05.2021| Elena Ziege
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Video
After failing to fully recover from the last financial crisis, the pandemic poses major new challenges for banks. However, this time, banks are not the problem, but part of the solution. By providing credit to the economy, banks play a crucial role in fighting the pandemic by ensuring the transmission of fiscal and monetary stimulus to the economy. Nevertheless, banks are not among the winners of...
06.05.2021| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Externe Working Papers
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students. Investigating mechanisms, we do not ...
Bonn:
IZA,
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(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 13709)
| Jan Bietenbeck, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt
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SOEPpapers 1132 / 2021
Substantial educational inequalities have been documented in Germany for decades. In this article, we examine whether educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on school-related activities at home ...
2021| Sabine Zinn, Michael Bayer