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DIW Discussion Papers 2150 / 2025
This paper constructs homogeneous time series of global household offshore wealth covering the 2001–2023 period, during which major international efforts were implemented to curb offshore tax evasion. We find that: (i) global offshore wealth remained broadly stable as a fraction of global GDP since 2001, following a sharp increase in the 1980s and 1990s; (ii) the location of offshore wealth changed ...
2025| Souleymane Faye, Sarah Godar, Carolina Moura, Gabriel Zucman
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This paper provides novel evidence of patent-induced shocks on firm survival, growth, and productivity, and how innovation shocks impact worker compensation and employment prospects. Using linked employer-employee data with newly linked German firm data and web-scraped patent documents, we leverage quasi-random assignment of patent applications to examiners. Patent allowance reduces market exit...
18.03.2026| André Diegmann, IWH & Uni Magdeburg
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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant and intellectually lively...
20.03.2026| Jacopo Bizzotto (Oslo Metropolitan University), Ioana Chioveanu (University of Nottingham), Ying Fan (University of Michigan), Max J. Pachali (Tilburg University), Amparo Urbano (University of Valencia)
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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DIW Discussion Papers 2148 / 2025
Do trade dependencies leave countries vulnerable to geopolitical coercion? We study the economic costs of trade and financial sanctions, from 1920 to the present. We first develop a continuous measure of sanction intensity, using bilateral commodity-level data to calculate the importance of specific flows that fall under sanctions. We find that sanctions inflict relatively small costs on average: sanctioning ...
2025| Martin Bernstein, Josefin Meyer, Kevin O’Rourke, Moritz Schularick
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DIW Discussion Papers 2149 / 2025
How do shifts in the global balance of power shape the world economy? We propose a theory of alignment-based “hegemonic globalization,” built on two central premises: countries differ in their preferences over policies (such as the rule of law or regulatory frameworks) and trade between any two countries increases with the degree of alignment in these policies. Hegemons promote policy alignment and ...
2025| Fernando Broner, Alberto Martin, Josefin Meyer, Christoph Trebesch
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DIW Weekly Report 49 / 2025
In 2024, the heating energy demand of households in Germany remained at a similar level as in 2023. Thus, the heating energy savings achieved during the energy crisis were maintained, as data from real estate service provider ista SE show. Compared to 2023, CO₂ emissions fell by three percent after adjusting for temperature. Although heating energy prices rose on average by only 6.2 percent in 2024, ...
2025| Sophie M. Behr, Till Köveker
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Video
Free, fair, and diversified trade plays a crucial role in the development of new technologies and thus also in the success of industrial and innovation policy strategies. Access to critical raw materials and other inputs, such as semiconductors or steel scrap, is often a prerequisite for the development of new technologies, including in the important areas of digitalization and decarbonization. At...
04.12.2025| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Research Project
To address persistent data limitations in entrepreneurship research, the SOEP-LEE2 project is being implemented in cooperation with the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Helmut Schmidt University (HSU). The project aims to create a unique linked data infrastructure that connects detailed individual-level information on entrepreneurs, including their personal and household characteristics, with...
Current Project| Entrepreneurship