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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
The global industrial structure has been in a constant state of change for some time now. While China’s share has steadily grown, Western industrialised countries have mostly experienced losses in industrial market share. Within Europe, the fates of the established industrialised nations have all played out very differently. For example, France and the UK have suffered massive losses, while Germany ...
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Intereconomics
51 (2016), 5, S. 272-277
| Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Web surveys technically allow providing feedback to the respondents based on their previous responses. This personalized feedback may increase respondents’ motivation and possibly the accuracy of responses. While past studies mainly concentrate on the effects of providing study results on future response rates, thus far survey research lacks theoretical and empirical contributions on the effects of ...
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Social Science Computer Review
36 (2018), 6, S. 744-755
| Simon Kühne, Martin Kroh
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area. In contrast to previous studies a stock-flow approach is applied to control for the different orders of integration between the stock and flow variables. Panel econometric techniques allowing for international spillovers are employed. Private and public capital stocks are both I(2) and cointegrated. ...
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Economic Modelling
58 (2016), S. 154-158
| Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Theoretical work based on social identity theory predicts that population diversity undermines redistributive public policies. This article tests this proposition exploiting an exogenous shock in diversity due to Germany’s reunification. In contrast to previous work on ethno-linguistic or racial heterogeneity, we specifically analyze religious diversity, which is an increasingly relevant social cleavage ...
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Journal of Urban Economics
94 (2016), S. 1-12
| Ronny Freier, Benny Geys, Joshua Holm
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Report
In Germany and many other countries, financial advisors are required by law to assess their clients’ risk preferences in order to help them make informed and appropriate investment decisions. Most institutions that provide financial advice - banks, for instance - carry out this assessment using just one type of risk measure. Financial advisors might ask clients to answer a question about their ...
19.10.2016
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
We extend the optimal taxation framework by Saez (2002) to allow for alternative concepts of justness. We calculate weights of a social planner's function as implied by the current German tax and transfer system based on the concepts of Minimum Sacrifice and subjective just incomes from survey questions and compare them to the welfarist case. We use new questions from the German Socioeconomic...
19.10.2016| Robin Jessen, FU BerlinDavud Rostam-Afschar, FU Berlin, Maria Metzing
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Personnel news
Stefan Seifert, who joined the DIW Graduate Center in October 2011 and worked at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin.His dissertation entitled “Productivity and Efficiency in Electricity Generation and Distribution", was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen (DIW, TU Berlin) and Dr. Astrid Cullmann ...
14.10.2016
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Personnel news
Martin Johannes Bruns has been granted a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (SddV) from November 2016 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates him on his success!
14.10.2016
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Seminar
This paper uses a cross-country database covering 46 economies over the post-war period to revisit two key monetary facts: (i) the long-run link between money growth and inflation and (ii) the link between credit growth and financial crises. The analysis reveals that the former has weakened over time, while the latter has become stronger. Moreover, the money-inflation nexus has been stronger in...
19.10.2016| Boris Hofmann, Bank for International Settlements
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DIW Europe Lecture
The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture series by leading policy-makers and academics on the future of Europe. The series aims at fostering and informing the debate on key European policy issues, and at bringing this debate to the heart of Germany's policy-making in Berlin.
The President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, will look at Europe’s economic and financial future: which...
25.10.2016| Mario Draghi