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Graduate Center Masterclasses
The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a masterclass on text mining by Stephen Hansen, Imperial College London. Details on the dates of the events will be announced in due time.
13.09.2022| Stephen Hansen
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a masterclass on complementary modeling in energy markets by Steven A. Gabriel.
We will review optimization problems (linear/nonlinear) and then introduce equilibrium problems expressed as mixed complementarity problems (MCPs). These latter problems have a diverse set of applications including market equilibrium/non-cooperative...
28.09.2022| Steven A. Gabriel
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
Expectations about the future play a central role in any model of decision-making under uncertainty, and are of particular importance in macroeconomis, labor economics and political economy. This planned GC Masterclass has the goal to equip its participants with an overview of state-of-the-art methods to measure beliefs and expectations, design information interventions and design outcomes to...
22.02.2023| Christopher Roth
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
We are soliciting the first ARGE MASTERCLASS for doctoral Students and Postdoctorates of members of the ARGE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschungsinstitute).
The Masterclass consists of a combination of lecture and four presentations. The Masterclass is given by Christiane Baumeister (University of Notre Dame; NBER; CEPR). Structural vector autoregressions are...
04.07.2023| Christiane Baumeister
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
We are soliciting the first ARGE MASTERCLASS for doctoral Students and Postdoctorates of members of the ARGE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschungsinstitute).
The Masterclass consists of a combination of lecture and four presentations. The Masterclass is given by Christiane Baumeister (University of Notre Dame; NBER; CEPR). Structural vector autoregressions are...
04.07.2023| Christiane Baumeister
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Scientific Skills Workshops
The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a workshop on writing good texts for academic journals. It is designed for all doctoral students and researchers at DIW who would like to improve their English writing skills. Please register with Laura Starck (lstarck@diw.de) by November 1st, 2024 for the workshop. Please note: Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
25.11.2024| Tim Korver
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Less-educated persons have worse cardiovascular health. We compare the educational gradients in three disease-specific health measures (biomarkers, self-reported doctors’ diagnoses and cause-specific mortality) in order to compare their relevance in different stages of the disease process. We study 14,102 people aged 50–89 from the US Health Retirement Study (HRS) in the period 2006–17. We use six ...
In:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
12 (2021), 4, S. 591–607
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In most cross-national research on Life Satisfaction (LS) an implicit assumption appears to be that the correlates of LS are the same the world over; ‘one size fits all’. Using data from the World Values Survey (1999–2014), we question this assumption by assessing the effects of differing personal values/life priorities on LS in five world regions: the West, Latin America, the Asian-Confucian region, ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
17 (2022), 2, S. 763-794
| Bruce Headey, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gert G. Wagner
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DIW Discussion Papers 1939 / 2021
Large-scale data show promise to provide efficiency gains through individualized risk predictions in many business and policy settings. Yet, assessments of the degree of data-enabled efficiency improvements remain scarce. We quantify the value of the availability of a variety of data combinations for tackling the policy problem of curbing antibiotic resistance, where the reduction of inefficient antibiotic ...
2021| Shan Huang, Michael Allan Ribers, Hannes Ullrich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the determinants of common European merger policy over its first 25 years, from 1990 to 2014. Using a novel dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all relevant merger cases notified to the European Commission, we evaluate how consistently arguments related to structural market parameters – dominance, rising concentration, barriers to entry, and foreclosure – ...
In:
International Journal of Industrial Organization
76 (2021), 102720, 22 S.
| Pauline Affeldt, Tomaso Duso, Florian Szücs