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DIW Economic Bulletin 28/29 / 2017
One focus of the G20 Summit in Hamburg in July 2017 was the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, including those set for the water sector. Despite progress, around 800 million people worldwide do not have adequate access to drinking water. Increasing block tariffs are an instrument widely used to support access to drinking water for poorer segments of the population. With this system, the ...
2017| Christian von Hirschhausen, Maya Flekstad, Georg Meran, Greta Sundermann
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Interview
Mrs. Schäfer, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has been negotiating the Basel III reform package since 2013. Banks have long been able to finance EU government bonds with 100% third-party debt capital. Is there agreement with regard to increasing the capital requirement for them?
The committee members agree that capital requirements for EU government bonds must be implemented in the ...
12.07.2017| Dorothea Schäfer
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Economic Bulletin
One focus of the G20 Summit in Hamburg in July 2017 was the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, including those set for the water sector. Despite progress, around 800 million people worldwide do not have adequate access to drinking water. Increasing block tariffs are an instrument widely used to support access to drinking water for poorer segments of the population. With this system, ...
12.07.2017
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Personnel news
Julia Rechlitz has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from August 2017 on.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
12.07.2017
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using high quality German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine work and family life. Broadband can influence fertility through various pathways, including...
26.07.2017| Luca Stella (Bocconi University and IZA)
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Video
Nicolas Ziebarth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. He studied economics and business studies at HU and TU Berlin and was a member of the first DIW Graduate Center cohort from 2006 to 2011. During this time, Nicolas Ziebarth worked in the SOEP department at DIW Berlin. His dissertation, entitled “Sickness Absence and Economic...
21.07.2017| SOEP People
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Personnel news
Kathleen Ngangoue, who works at the Competition and Consumers department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Humboldt University Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Decision-Making in Markets" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin) and Prof. Antonio Guarino, Ph.D. (University College London).
We congratulate Kathleen ...
21.07.2017
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Statement
Statement from 20 July 2017
20.07.2017| Marcel Fratzscher
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic and societal repercussions, questions concerning the subjective experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although existing studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for cognitive (life satisfaction) and affective well-being, studies directly ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
18 (2017), 4, S. 1231-1254
| Christian von Scheve, Friederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Redistributive policies can provide an insurance against future negative economic shocks. This, in turn, implies that an individual's demand for redistribution is expected to increase with her risk aversion. To test this prediction, we elicit risk aversion and demand for redistribution through a well-established set of measures in a representative sample of the Swedish population. We document a statistically ...
In:
Journal of Public Economics
153 (2017), S. 49-55
| Johanna Mollerstrom, Manja Gärtner, David Seim