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Personnel news
Nils May, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate at the Climate Policy Department, has received a Subsidy from Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS). The prize was awarded for his presentation "Cost-Efficient investments? Policy Impacts on Financing Costs" at this year's European Assocation of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Conference in Athens.
15.12.2017
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Statement
Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), comments the latest ECB council meeting as follows:
14.12.2017| Marcel Fratzscher
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We analyze fiscal devaluation in a three-country model. The introduction of the third country, outside a monetary union, increases the expansionary effect of fiscal devaluation and the second country of the monetary union experiences a boom instead of a recession.
In:
Economics Letters
163 (2018), S. 13-16
| Philipp Engler, Sandra Pasch, Juha Tervala
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Non-refereed Articles
The internet has fundamentally changed the way researchers work and collaborate, but has had less impact on the way they publish their results. In this pa-per, we ask how scientific reports should be designed with the internet as the primary distribution channel in mind. We propose a concept for a multi-layerdesign, which is capable of including both interactive elements and a comprehensive data-layer. ...
In:
xCoAx 2017 — LISBON : Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Lisbon: xCoAx 2017
S. 30-36
| Marcel Hebing, Larissa Wunderlich, Julia Ebert
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Marginal employment (ME) is one of the largest forms of atypical employment in Germany. We analyse whether ME has a ‘stepping stone’ function for unemployed individuals, i.e., whether ME increases the subsequent probability of regular employment. We find differing treatment effects by unemployment duration. According to our results, ME increases the likelihood of regular employment within a 3-year ...
In:
Labour
31 (2017), 4, S. 394-414
| Torsten Lietzmann, Paul Schmelzer, Jürgen Wiemers
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Refereed essays Web of Science
How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish public opinion. Our main contribution is that we draw explicit attention to the link between terrorist events and individuals’ social trust. While we identify a strong effect on individuals’ ...
In:
Public Choice
173 (2017), 3-4, S. 289-305
| Benny Geys, Salmai Qari
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Event
The DIW Berlin is happy to invite you to join the presentation of the first release of the World Inequality Report conducted by the internationally leading inequality experts centered around Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman.
Economic inequality is widespread and has been growing since the 1980s questioning economic growth policies over the world. The report will be introduced by its general...
16.01.2018| Charlotte Bartels is a postdoctoral researcher at DIW Berlin/SOEP. Her research is in the fields of empirical public and labor economics, in particular, the distribution of income and wealth in a long-run perspective.
Lucas Chancel is codirector of the World Inequality Lab and of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world) at the Paris School of Economics. He is also a Lecturer at Sciences Po and general coordinator of the World Inequality Report 2018.
Hartmut Kaelble is a senior professor of social history at the Department of Economic and Social History at Humboldt University, Berlin. His most recent book is “Mehr Reichtum, mehr Armut” (More Wealth, more poverty) (campus 2017). He has published widely on inequality, social mobility and comparative history of Europe.
Welcome address by: Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig | DIW Berlin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Euro area countries and Japan are confronted with similar challenges. Potential output is on a declining trend in the Euro area, and the decrease started well before the financial crisis. In Japan, low-output growth is a striking feature since many years, despite the unconventional monetary policy stance and numerous fiscal stimulus programs provided by the government. According to a growth accounting ...
In:
Asia Europe Journal
15 (2017), 4, S. 363-375
| Christian Dreger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The deployment of battery-powered electric bus systems within the public transportation sector plays an important role in increasing energy efficiency and abating emissions. Rising attention is given to bus systems using fast charging technology. This concept requires a comprehensive infrastructure to equip bus routes with charging stations. The combination of charging infrastructure and bus batteries ...
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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
11 (2017), 10, S. 707-720
| Alexander Kunith, Roman Mendelevitch, Dietmar Goehlich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The cross-border effects of a capacity market and a strategic reserve in interconnected electricity markets are modeled using an agent-based modeling methodology. Both capacity mechanisms improve the security of supply and reduce consumer costs. Our results indicate that interconnections do not affect the effectiveness of a capacity market, while a strategic reserve is affected negatively. The neighboring ...
In:
Utilities Policy
46 (2017), S. 33-47
| Pradyumna C. Bhagwat, Jörn Richstein, Emile J. L. Chappin, Kaveri K. Iychettira, Laurens J. de Vries