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No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self

Managerial Knowledge Spillovers and Firm Productivity

The 8th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an...

Quantifying Inertia in Retail Deposit Markets

Macroeconometric Workshop 2016

The DIW Berlin organizes its annual workshop on macroeconometricmodelling. The workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research, in the center of Berlin.The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

New structure at LIS - Cross-national Data Center Luxembourg

New leadership structure  at LIS In a post on September 1, 2016, Janet Gornick, Director of the LIS since 2006, offers some key information about the new structure and recognizes several people who have made LIS what it is, over many years. Please read here the central paragraphs : "Since its inception in 1983, LIS has had a single Director, responsible for the overall operation of LIS. Tim ...

Germany 2013 added to the LIS Database

One new dataset from Germany, DE13, (Wave IX), has been added to the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS). The dataset is from wave 31 of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the 7 earlier German datasets based on the same survey (DE10/07/04/00/94/89/84) have been revised for consistency. See Revision notes for details. The LIS Database includes: Household- ...

Reminder: SOEP-IS deadline

Researchers interested in submitting questions to the SOEP-IS 2017 survey should contact SOEP Survey Management by November 30, 2016, to present their proposal. If the project is determined to be viable from a survey methodology perspective, an official application procedure will follow. The official application must be received by December 31, 2016. Send us your proposal! Applications should be submitted ...

SOEP People: Five Questions to Jennifer Hunt

Jennifer Hunt is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. Born in Australia and raised in Switzerland, she has held teaching and research posts in Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the USA. She served in the Obama Administration as Chief Economist in the US Department of Labor from 2013-14 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury from ...

Wind variability and its impact on markets: Prof. Ross Baldick | The University of Texas at Austin

Academic keynote by Prof. Ross Baldick of the University of Texas at Austin at the Berlin Conference on Energy and Electricity Economics (BELEC 2016): "Towards a Lower Carbon Energy System in Germany, Europe, and world-wide - Market Design, Technologies, and Business Models"