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Hints for Authors and Editorial Team of the SOEPpapers

The SOEPpapers are the chief platform for publishing research results based on SOEP data. As SOEP is a multidisciplinary panel, the SOEPpapers publishes work from all social scientific disciplines. SOEPpapers are published on a non-exclusive basis, thereby allowing authors to publish their articles elsewhere if they wish. SOEP encourages that all papers appear in other professional, institutional, ...

Industrial Demand Response: How Network Tariffs and Regulation Do (Not) Impact Flexibility Provision in Electricity Markets and Reserves

Incentives for industrial loads to provide demand response on day-ahead and reserve markets are affected both by network tariffs, as well as regulations on the provision of flexibility in different markets. This paper uses a numerical model of the chlor-alkali process with a storable intermediate good to investigate how these factors affect the provision of demand response in these markets. We also ...

Monetary Policy and Household Deleveraging

This study investigates the interrelation between the household leverage cycle, collateral constraints, and monetary policy. Using data on the U.S. economy, we find that a contractionary monetary policy shock leads to a large and significant fall in economic activity during periods of household deleveraging. In contrast, monetary policy shocks only have insignificant effects during a household leveraging ...

Germany economy defying an uncertain environment

DIW Berlin expects GDP growth of 0.9 percent for 2019 and 1.7 percent for 2020 – Overall picture remains unchanged: domestic economy is supporting growth, foreign business is subdued - Unemployment continuing to decline - Trade war poses serious risks for the German economy - Municipal finances in need of restructuring As of early summer 2019, the German economy is a little weaker than in 2018, but ...

Call for proposals for the fourth wave of IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany

Deadline for the 2020 Survey: September 30, 2019. Use the Survey of Refugees, now in its fourth wave, for your own research questions.    The IAB, BAMF, and SOEP invite researchers to propose questions to be added to the Survey of Refugees questionnaire in 2020, its fourth wave. If you would like to suggest any additional questions or items on refugees that are relevant to your current ...

Industrial Transformation 2050: Towards an Industrial Strategy for a Climate Neutral Europe

Behavioral economics of climate and energy policies

Rooms09.09.2019: Francine D. Blau Room (3rd floor)10.09.2019: Francine D. Blau Room (3rd floor) This Masterclass is part of the Summer School "Economic Foundations for Energy and Climate Policies". Participants of the Summer School do not need to register.

Competition and market design issues in electricity markets

This Masterclass is part of the Summer School "Economic Foundations for Energy and Climate Policies". Participants of the Summer School do not need to register.

Fear of Stigmatization Prevents Individuals from Claiming Benefits

The desire to avoid the shame of being dependent on government aid is often cited as a cause of low welfare take-up rates. In contrast to other obstacles, such as transaction costs or a lack of information, little empirical research has been conducted on how stigma affects social benefits take-up. In this Weekly Report, a controlled laboratory experiment is presented whose results support the following ...

SOEP in Sociology: Reference Article

Just published online is the recent journal article to describe and refer to the SOEP data in the field of sociology: Marco Giesselmann, Sandra Bohmann, Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Elisabeth Liebau, David Richter, Diana Schacht, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Stefan Liebig. 2019. The Individual in Context(s): Research Potentials of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in Sociology. European ...