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Personnel news
Izabela Wnuk-Soares, Research Associate in the Public Economics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Essays on Immigration, Population Aging, and Labor Markets” with summa cum laude on July 15, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and Jan Stuhler. Congratulations!
17.07.2025
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DIW Discussion Papers 2129 / 2025
Mental health and wellbeing are unequally distributed in high-income countries, disadvan- taging low-income individuals. Unconditional, regular, guaranteed, and individual cash transfers may help address this inequality by promoting financial security and agency. We conducted a preregistered RCT in Germany, where treated participants received monthly payments of EUR 1,200 for three years. Cash transfers ...
2025| Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter
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[English subtitles, German language video] Climate neutrality is possible and necessary—scientists, politicians, and society agree on this. But implementation is stalling. Why? Karsten Neuhoff, Head of the Climate Policy Department at DIW Berlin, explains in the video: There is a lack of the right policy instruments to make climate-friendly investments attractive. The team analyzes international...
15.07.2025| 100 Jahre DIW Berlin
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DIW Discussion Papers 2128 / 2025
This paper provides empirical evidence on which M&A deals spur innovation, and which stifle it. To do so, we consider not only the product market position of the acquiring firm, but also the position of both target and acquirer in the technology space. Focusing on the antidiabetic drugs market, our dataset tracks the lifecycle and patenting of all individual antidiabetic projects in development between ...
2025| Jan Malek, Jo Seldeslachts, Reinhilde Veugelers
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This paper examines the “right” geographic definition of relevant markets by analysing how excise tax pass-through varies with local competition in the retail gasoline market of Athens, Greece. Using a natural experiment from three unanticipated and exogenous fuel tax hikes in 2010 and detailed station-level price data, we show that average pass-through is almost complete and invariant to the...
14.05.2025| Themistoklis Kampouris
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Berlin Seminar
Bank transition plans (TPs) are becoming vital tools for assessing financial institutions' climate resilience and readiness for a sustainable economy. The EU’s 2024 Capital Requirements Directive 6 mandates that banks develop TPs for prudential oversight, with supervisors required to evaluate them. In response, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued guidelines to support banks in...
20.05.2025| Agnieszka Smoleńska & Ira Poensgen – Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx), Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics (LSE), Lavinia Bauerochse – Deutsche Bank, Stefan Nießner – German Central Bank/Deutsche Bundesbank, Katharina Beck – German Parliament/Deutscher Bundestag, Beate Hollweg – German Environment Agency/Umweltbundesamt
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This paper examines how firms' CO2 emission intensity (CEI) responds to trade shocks. Changes in market conditions, such as trade shocks, are believed to drive specialization toward core products, foster innovation, improve productivity, and influence abatement choices. I develop a unified framework that decomposes within-firm changes in CEI into within- and between-product components and...
21.05.2025| Alberto Mola, KU Leuven
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Berlin Seminar
We discuss with experts from academia, politics and industry how the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for sectors with complex value chains can be further developed or reformed in order to create reliable investment framework for climate-neutral raw material production while effectively limiting carbon leakage risks.
In particular, we discussed an EU ETS and CBAM reform for materials...
10.03.2026| Daniela Klein (BASF), Malte Bornkamm (BMWe), Simon Wolf (Germanwatch), Alexander Leiden (Salzgitter Stahl), Mark Becker-v.Bredow (Verband der Elektro- und Digitalindustrie)
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In this article, we introduce the command beyondpareto, which estimates the extreme-value index for distributions that are Pareto-like, that is, whose upper tails are regularly varying and eventually become Pareto. The estimation is based on rank-size regressions, and the threshold value for the upper-order statistics included in the final regression is determined optimally by minimizing the asymptotic ...
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The Stata Journal
25 (2025), 1, S. 169–188
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Isabella Retter, Mattis Beckmannshagen
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DIW Weekly Report 18/19 / 2025
The average gender pay gap in Germany is 16 percent according to the most recent data. On the occasion of the 2025 Equal Pay Day, this Weekly Report using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data shows that considerable differences according to age and level of education are hiding behind this average gap. For example, the gender pay gap increases significantly with age for people of all educational backgrounds ...
2025| Fiona Herrmann, Katharina Wrohlich