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Geolinking Service SoRa: Successful Soft Launch

The Geolinking Service SoRa enables spatial analysis of social science survey data and supports socio-spatial research. Pre-defined geospatial datasets and linking methods will be offered, e.g. spatial indicators from the IOER-Monitor to analyses the living environment (including aspects of accessibility, or density). Furthermore, geocoding (based on BKG Geocoder) is offered to transfer address lists ...

Clara Schäper has successfully defended her dissertation

Clara Schäper, Research Associate in the Public Economics Department and Gender Economics research group and Ph.D. student at the University of Potsdam, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Personal is Political: Five Essays in Labor and Family Economics” on May 12, 2026. She was supervised by Katharina Wrohlich and C. Katharina Spieß. Congratulations!

Review of Proxy Vector Autoregressive Analysis

In structural vector autoregressive analysis, it has become quite popular to identify some structural shocks of interest by external instruments or proxies. This study points out a variety of areas where such proxies have been used and sketches the way the proxies have been constructed. It reviews identification and estimation methods that have been considered in this context. Moreover, it points out ...

Lamfalussy Research Fellowship for Gökhan Ider and Hedda Thorell

We are proud to share that our PhD student Gökhan Ider (Freie Universität Berlin) and Hedda Thorell from Stockholm University were awarded the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship 2026 by the European Central Bank. They are among five fellows and will work on their paper "News-driven fluctuations and monetary policy transmission" during their fellowship. The Lamfalussy Fellowship program was launched in ...

Long-Duration Electricity Storage Needs for Coping with Dunkelflaute Events in Europe

Coping with prolonged periods of low availability of wind and solar power, also referred to as variable renewable energy droughts or “Dunkelflaute”, emerges as a key challenge for realizing decarbonized energy systems based on renewable energy. Here we investigate the role of long-duration electricity storage and geographical balancing through transmission in dealing with such events in Europe, combining ...

Photovoltaic Manufacturing in the EU Requires a Unified Industrial Strategy

Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity is critical for providing Europe with a steady supply of decarbonized energy at competitive prices. To ensure the supply of solar PV modules, the European Union (EU) aims to meet 40 percent of its demand with domestic products by 2030. To achieve this goal, EU Member States no longer need to base their support for PV projects solely on price under the NZIA, but can ...

Klare Rahmenbedingungen für EU-PV-Hersteller jetzt umsetzen: Interview von Thibault Deletombe

Data as a Key to Better Crisis Preparedness

For more than 40 years, SOEP has been collecting information on living conditions, health, and social factors from approximately 30,000 individuals. Based on these data, Sabine Zinn develops synthetic health data that links different information sources and enable realistic scenario modeling. These models help researchers understand human behavior during crises and assess potential impacts at an early ...

Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks

We study the role of international financial integration in buffering natural disaster shocks, using a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. Natural disasters are largely unpredictable and unrelated to the state of financial integration. We document that integration improves the absorption of such shocks: Output, consumption, and investment are significantly higher after a natural disaster ...

CBAM – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

CBAM – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism