This paper investigates neighborhood peer effects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with aggregated zip code level-information. The results suggest that individual welfare use is positively correlated ...
The increase of the use of atomic power in some emerging economies, in particular South Korea and China, has revitalized a discussion regarding the availability of uranium resources. Despite the fact that global uranium resources are more than sufficient to supply reactor-related demand for the rest of the century, some voices in the nuclear community expect a supply shortage for the upcoming decades, ...
DIW Berlin study reveals decline in foreign-owned companies’ R&D spending, but increase in overall R&D expenditure due to domestic companies’ considerable investment – foreign-owned companies are investing more strongly in leading-edge technologies, and midsize foreign-owned companies recently raised their R&D expenditure Private companies’ overall R&D ...
Marcel Hebing successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Bamberg, Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics, and Business Administration, on May 17, 2016. In his dissertation entitled "A Metadata-Driven Approach to Panel Data Management and its Application in DDI on Rails," he presents a generic framework for the development of a metadata-driven infrastructure for panel studies developed ...
Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets. In April 2015, the so-called rental brake was introduced, which imposes upper bounds for rents in new contracts, in order to immediately slow down the increase of rents in tight housing markets. Since then, 11 federal states made use of this instrument. We take advantage of this ...
This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC. We find evidence that this effect is mainly related to differential appreciation of the career costs ...
Jakob Miethe has been granted a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates him on his success!
Marlene Karl, department of Macroeconomics, has successfully defended her dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title “Essays in Banking Risk, Regulation and Monetary Policy" was supervised by Dieter Nautz (Freie Universität Berlin) and Claudia Buch (Universität Tübingen). The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates her on her su ...
