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Conference
This one-day conference brings together leading researchers and policymakers to discuss the interactions between fiscal policy, public debt, monetary transmission, innovation, and inequality. The program features research presentations, panel discussions, and opportunities for exchange across academia and policy institutions.
18.12.2025| Christian Bayer (Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy & University of Bonn), Claudia Buch (Chair of the ECB Supervisory Board), Martina Jasova (Barnard College, Columbia University), Melina Ludolph (Halle Institute for Economic Research & University of Magdeburg), Anna Rogantini Picco (European Central Bank, CEPR), Stefan Profit (Federal Ministry of Finance), Paolo Surico (London Business School, CEPR), Linda Tesar (University of Michigan, NBER), Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel University, CEPR), Alexander Kriwoluzky, Malte Rieth
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7000 self-employed individuals living in Germany, we investigate how declines in job satisfaction are related to the ...
In:
Applied Psychology
74 (2025), 6, e70039, 27 S.
| Joern Block, Miriam Gnad, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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DIW Discussion Papers 2146 / 2025
We replicate a study by Känzig (American Economic Review, 111 (2021), 1092-1125), who employs structural vector autoregressive techniques to examine the impact of changes in oil supply expectations on the price of oil and other macroeconomic aggregates. Känzig identifies an oil supply news shock by constructing a proxy from OPEC announcements about their production plans. As this proxy is a controversial ...
2025| Helmut Lütkepohl, Till Strohsal
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
(joint with Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Felix Weinhardt)
Health investments are vital for maintaining physical and mental well-being throughout working life, and their importance is amplified with rising retirement ages due to demographic aging. This is the first study to examine if a longer working life causally increases institutionalized health investments. We explore the impact of a German...
19.11.2025| Mia Teschner-Hofmann
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Siblings are the ultimate peers, deeply shaping one another’s development. Do these influences vary with a family’s cultural background? I estimate how sibling spillovers differ for girls and boys with older brothers or sisters in migrant and native families, using a regression discontinuity design on high-quality administrative data. Exploiting exogenous variation in older siblings’ achievement...
26.11.2025| Anna Hasselqvist
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DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogue
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...
08.12.2025| Nicola Brandt, Christian Forwick, Marion Jansen, Wolfgang Niedermark, Sonali Chowdhry
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DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogue
Amidst a global battle for technological leadership in fast-changing and emerging industries, Europe has been losing competitiveness. Productivity remains weak. While innovation is taking place in the EU, its large-scale commercialisation often occurs abroad – along with the creation of new firms and employment that accompany it. Industrial policy could help address these challenges, but too often...
26.01.2026| Nicola Brandt, Markus Heß, Ori Schwartz, Tomaso Duso
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Publication
More cohesion on climate issues?
The vast majority (71 percent) of Germans would like to see their politicians do much more to combat climate change, with 83 percent reporting they are concerned about climate change. At the same time, many people are worried about the economic consequences of climate policy. Only eight percent are clearly opposed to ecological transformation – a small but potentially ...
20.11.2025| Julian B. Axenfeld
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Publication
The vast majority (71 percent) of Germans would like to see their politicians do much more to combat climate change, with 83 percent reporting they are concerned about climate change. At the same time, many people are worried about the economic consequences of climate policy. Only eight percent are clearly opposed to ecological transformation – a small but potentially divisive group.
These and other ...
20.11.2025| Julian B. Axenfeld
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DIW Discussion Papers 2147 / 2025
Between 1950 and 2023, the housing cost burden — approximated by the proportion of total household consumption expenditure spent on housing, water, electricity and fuel — has risen almost steadily in many countries around the world. First, this trend can be explained by substantial improvements in the quantity and quality of housing. In fact, in some countries (e.g., Germany), per capita floor space ...
2025| Konstantin A. Kholodilin