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Refereed essays Web of Science
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax‐and‐transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life‐cycle model, we determine that the tax‐and‐transfer system offsets 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in productive abilities ...
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Quantitative Economics
16 (2025), 2, S. 565–613
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse, Maximilian Schaller
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The economic outlook describes the current economic situation and the risks facing the economy. The outlook enables the government, for example, to plan its spending and take measures to prevent certain predicted developments from occurring. Every quarter, DIW Berlin publishes current economic outlook for the current and following year: the ...
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German economy is on the brink of recovery; growth of 0.3 percent and of 1.7 percent expected for 2025 and 2026; DIW Berlin is increasing its forecast
Federal investment package to provide stimuli; effects in 2025 will be minimal due to planning delays, ...
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We show that in a New Keynesian model with household heterogeneity, fiscal policy can be a perfect substitute for monetary policy: three simple conditions for consumption taxes, labor taxes, and the government debt level are sufficient to induce the same consumption and labor supply of each household and, thus, the same allocation as interest rate policies. When monetary policy is constrained by a ...
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Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics
1 (2023), 4, S. 633-664
| Hannah Magdalena Seidl, Fabian Seyrich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Who makes it to the top? We use the leading socio-economic survey in Germany, supplemented by extensive data on the rich, to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self-employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 2, e70015, 19 S.
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder
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1. What are the challenges of the current production-specific CBAM?
2. How does a CBAM based on standardized values work?
3. How does it work within EU ETS?
4. What are the incentives and risks for conventional producers?
5. Material use: How does a CBAM based on standardized values work?
6. Clean producer: How should Carbon Contract for Difference (CCfD) be allocated among sectors and Member States?
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
As Western populations age, more adult children face parental health challenges. Caregiving responsibilities towards parents are becoming crucial concerns for families, healthcare systems, and societies. While this care is essential for elderly well-being, it also demands significant time, energy and emotional resources. Yet, the impact of care provision on caregivers’ lives remains understudied....
04.06.2025| Emma Palladino
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Externe Monographien
Die Umstellung von fossilen Brennstoffen auf erneuerbare Energien ist essenziell, um Klimaneutralität zu erreichen. Da das Potenzial steuerbarer erneuerbarer Energien in den meisten Ländern begrenzt ist, werden zukünftige Energiesysteme voraussichtlich überwiegend mit Strom aus fluktuierender Wind- und Solarenergie betrieben. Der Ausgleich zwischen Stromnachfrage und wetterabhängiger, variabler Erzeugung ...
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Technische Universität Berlin,
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XVII, 275 S.
| Martin Kittel
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Survey Quality
1. So, you want collect survey data!
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In theory, this is quite simple. You have a couple of questions you want to ask; you get your respondents to reply to them, and there you have ...
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DIW Discussion Papers 2120 / 2025
This paper provides causal evidence on the effect of credit crunches on political polarisation. Combining data on bank-firm connections and electoral outcomes at the city-level during the 2008-2014 Spanish financial crisis, I construct an instrument for unemployment based on the city-level exposure to (foreign) weak banks. I find that a 10% increase in (instrumented) local unemployment rates leads ...
2025| Pia Hüttl