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DIW Weekly Report 48 / 2018
Fairtrade certification is intended to improve both the income and living conditions of producers, thereby creating more fairness in international trade. However, theoretical considerations and empirical studies show that this goal is only achieved to a limited extent, at least for coffee: Faitrade certification leads at best to small increases in income for coffee farmers. The results on the reduction ...
2018| Pio Baake, Jana Friedrichsen, Helene Naegele
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Carbon leakage is of interest in both academic and policy debates about the effectiveness of unilateral climate policy, especially in Europe, where the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) affects many traded sectors. We review how the literature identifies leakage and the pollution haven effect. We then evaluate whether EU ETS emission costs caused carbon leakage in European manufacturing, using trade ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
93 (2019), S. 125-147
| Helene Naegele, Aleksandar Zaklan
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DIW Discussion Papers 1772 / 2018
Understanding whether laws shape or simply reflect citizens’ attitudes is important but empirically difficult. We provide new evidence on this question by studying the relationship between legal same-sex relationship recognition policies (SSRRPs) and attitudes towards sexual minorities in Europe. Using data from the European Social Surveys covering 2002-2016 and exploiting variation in the timing of ...
2018| Cevat G. Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph de Haas, Kevin Tran
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Identification schemes are of essential importance in structural analysis. This paper focuseson testing a commonly used long-run structural parameter identification scheme claiming to identifyfundamental and non-fundamental shocks to stock prices. Five related widely used structural modelson assessing stock price determinants are considered. All models are either specified in vector errorcorrection ...
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Quantitative Finance and Economics
2 (2018), 1, S. 106-126
| Anton Velinov
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper assesses fiscal-policy sustainability. A sufficient condition for this is that public debt is on a stationary trajectory. This is tested by means of a very general Markov-switching augmented Dickey-Fuller (MS-ADF) model, which expands and improves simpler existing models of this type, and produces more reliable results than conventional state-invariant unit-root tests. Long data series (in ...
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Finanzarchiv
71 (2015), 4, S. 415-439
| Anton Velinov
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Refereed essays Web of Science
General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question howrates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individualdifference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy,angry, fearful, sad) and satisfaction with key life domains (health, leisure, family) change ...
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Developmental Psychology
54 (2018), 12, S. 2382-2402
| Denis Gerstorf, Gizem Hülür, Gert G. Wagner, Ute Kunzmann, Nilam Ram
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper uses a structural VAR model to study the effect of monetary policy on the delinquency rate of business loans and consumer credit. The VAR is identified using, jointly, several external instruments that reflect different approaches from the literature. Delinquency rates, defined as the rate of loans with overdue repayments relative to total loans, are found to decrease in response to an exogenous ...
In:
International Journal of Central Banking
14 82018), 4, S. 327-358
| Michele Piffer
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Based on extensive positive feedback from our users, we have decided to send the SOEPnewsletter in a simple and easily readable HTML format from now on. We would be glad about your feedback.
It will then mainly receive links to the news and content available on our website.
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30.11.2018
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The SOEPcompanion offers users a wealth of information on the data in the main SOEP survey (SOEP-Core).
This online handbook is designed to help new users getting started with the SOEP by introducing the survey, its structure, and research potential. The SOEPcompanion provides also important information on the topics in SOEP-Core, survey design, the various subsamples, a precise explanation of the ...
29.11.2018
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We are pleased to announce that the script generator and basket in Paneldata.org, which can be used by simply registering and logging in, have been thoroughly revised and now offer the following improved functions:
More intuitive design and navigation
Variables placed in the basket are now easier to supplement with connected variables over time.
A list of variables can be exported as a csv file
Several ...
29.11.2018| Uta Rahmann