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Refereed essays Web of Science
Subsidies for renewable energy sources are increasing around the globe and amounted to more than 100 billion euro in 2013. This study aims to answer whether the subsidies only ensure that green electricity plants are profitable or whether other market participant – as, for example, landowners – benefit from the subsidy in the form of windfall gains as well. To identify the causal effect of the subsidies, ...
In:
Journal of Public Economics
159 (2018), S. 16-32
| Peter Haan, Martin Simmler
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DIW Roundup 120 / 2018
Recent studies have proposed several factors that determine how fiscal consolidations affect the economy. This Roundup focuses on several of these determinants. Namely, it discusses how the composition of the consolidation measure, the state of the business cycle, the level of private indebtedness and the amount of fiscal stress during which the measure is implemented influences the consequences of ...
2018| Mathias Klein
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Video
Since the early 1990s, immigration has been a more important source of population increase in the EU than the natural change due to births and deaths, while in recent years Europe is facing a large inflow of refugees. At the same time, Eurobarometer opinion surveys reveal that immigration tops the list of challenges that EU citizens are most concerned about and therefore effective policies toward...
15.02.2018| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Personnel news
The DIW Graduate Center is happy to welcome its new vice dean, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp. He currently holds a position as Professor at the Free University of Berlin Institute of Sociology. His research interests include survey methodology, social structures analysis and social inequalities.
Prof. Schupp has a long history of working at the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) of the DIW. He played ...
15.02.2018
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DIW Discussion Papers 1723 / 2018
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: “opportunity” and “necessity” entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the previous literature on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there are ...
2018| Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
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Report
We are happy to announce that GC students across all cohorts have voted for Daniel Graeber (GC class 2015) and Felicitas Schikora (GC class 2016) as their new representatives in 2018!
We thank Marica and Daniel for their excellent work last year and look forward to a continued great collaboration with the new representatives.
The two Student’s Representatives serve as spokespersons for the ...
15.02.2018
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
28 (2018), 5, S. 471-486
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Externe Working Papers
We propose a new instrument to identify uncertainty shocks in a SVAR model with external instruments. The instrument is constructed by exploiting variations in the price of gold around events that capture periods of changes in uncertainty. The variations in the price of gold around the events correlate with the underlying uncertainty shocks, due to the perception of gold as a safe haven asset. To control ...
München:
CESifo,
2017,
39 S.
(CESifo Working Papers ; 6327)
| Michele Piffer, Maximilian Podstawski
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Externe Working Papers
Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data like tax records offer more precise information on top incomes, but at the expense of household context details and incomes of non-filers at the bottom of the distribution. We combine the benefits of the ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2017,
35 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 10573)
| Charlotte Bartels, Maria Metzing
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Externe Working Papers
This paper analyzes optimal product lines when consumers differ both in their taste for, quality and in their desire for social image. The market outcome features partial pooling and, product differentiation that is not driven by heterogeneous valuations for quality but by image, concerns. A typical monopoly outcome is a two-tier product line resembling a “masstige”, strategy as observed in luxury ...
Munich, Germany:
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190,
2018,
36 S. : Anh.
(Discussion Paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; 70)
| Jana Friedrichsen