The Firms and Markets Department analyzes firms’ strategic behavior and its impact on efficiency, productivity, and growth as well as the institutional and political environment in which firms operate. With the aid of well-established empirical microeconomic tools, the department analyzes economic policy issues, aiming to produce robust data on and suitable tools for evaluating current economic...
Aleksandra Peeva, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Political Goals, Economic Constraints: Explaining the Motivation and Effects of Economic Sanctions" was supervised by Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). We ...
2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009-2000 1999 - 1990 1989 - 1984 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2024 2025 In January, Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States. His campaign motto: “Make America Great Again”. Thousands took to the streets to protest Trump’s agenda—even in Germany. That summer, “marriage for everyone” made headlines when Germany’s parliament passed a bill ...
Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born between 1955 and 1975 earned a significantly ...
Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the situation of families that differ in size and composition is rarely considered more closely in this context. Relevant research typically relies on equivalence scales to make income comparable across different types of households. The standard approach for doing so is based on the so-called ...
We propose a social welfare function to evaluate a profile of income streams and compare the welfare gain of the actual profile relative to the income profile where the individual receives his first period income in each period. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the welfare gain to be positive, and show how this welfare gain can be decomposed in a pure effect of economic growth, a mobility ...
Reanalysis of Published Findings with SOEP Data Detailed instructions for researchers Archive for Reanalysis of Published Findings Publications with completely anonymized microdata Publications with dataset available for licenced SOEP users Publications to use with the original SOEP-Core dataset The SOEP supports efforts in the scientific community to make data easily available for replication and ...
Short-term electricity markets are key to an efficient production by generation units. We develop a two-period model to assess different bidding formats to determine for each bidding format the optimal bidding strategy of competitive generators facing price-uncertainty. We compare the results for simple bidding, block bidding and multi-part bidding and find that even under optimal simple and block ...
