The new US administration has a clear agenda of reducing imports to the US and attract FDI by reducing tariffs and using the proceeds for supporting investment in the US. This paper uses a dynamic two country US vs RoW model where monopolistically competitive firms make export and FDI decisions. We study how this additional FDI channel affects the impact of import tariffs on the US and RoW economy. ...
The Annual Macro Meeting of the German Economic Association (VfS) will take place on May 15-16, 2025, at DIW Berlin, providing an interdisciplinary platform for discussing current topics in macroeconomics. Leading researchers will present innovative approaches and challenges in macroeconomic theory, including topics such as the impact of expectations in heterogeneous agent models, the...
Data quality is known to be compromised when respondents cognitively shortcut the survey response process. This satisficing behavior leads to inaccurate and unreliable responses that are hard to compensate after data collection. Thus, detecting and understanding survey satisficing is crucial for developing and implementing effective preventive measures in longitudinal data collection contexts. We use ...
Für Länder auf der ganzen Welt stellt der Übergang zur Klimaneutralität eine Chance für Wirtschaftswachstum und Wohlstand dar. Gleichzeitig haben die Transformation der Wirtschaft und die mit ihr einhergehenden Staatsausgaben wichtige verteilungspolitische Implikationen. Die politischen Debatten um Energie- und Klimapolitik zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, diese verteilungspolitischen Implikationen zu verstehen, ...
Virginia Sondergeld, former Research Associate in the Public Economics department and the Research Group Gender Economics, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Women in management: Essays in Gender and Labor Economics” on January 31, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich. Congratulations!
