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Externe Working Papers
In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the effects of these threshold-based policies on political and economic outcomes. Using evidence ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2015,
53 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9553)
| Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The increase in divorce rates over the past decades challenges the traditional image of the two-parent family. Yet, this traditional view of the family remains most often central to political socialization research. Therefore, this study investigates how parental separation affects the political socialization process, by comparing adults who did and did not experience parental separation while...
02.03.2016| Mathilde M. van Ditmars (European University Institute)
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Press Release
One out of every three workers would prefer to work from home, but only one out of every eight actually does – Germany’s proportion of home workers lags behind that of other European countries – home workers are more satisfied with their jobs – reconciling career and family is not the primary motive
In Germany, only twelve percent of all employees work primarily or even partially ...
29.02.2016
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DIW Economic Bulletin 8 / 2016
As far as the share of individuals with a home office is concerned, Germany is below the EU average and lags considerably behind other countries such as France, the UK, or the Scandinavian countries. Only 12 percent of all employees in Germany work primarily or occasionally from home, although this would theoretically be possible in 40 percent of jobs. In most cases, an employee’s desire to work from ...
2016| Karl Brenke
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Interview
Mr. Junker, what kind of growth should we expect for the German economy?
The German economy is expected to grow by 1.6 percent this year, which is a bit weaker than we had forecasted this past winter. This slight downward revision is primarily due to the fact that industry experienced a weak phase over the past six months, especially in the final quarter of 2015. The major reason for this was ...
16.03.2016
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Externe Working Papers
One important function of consumption is for consumers to show off their taste, virtue or wealth. While empirical observations suggest that producers take this into account, existing research has concentrated on analyzing the demand side. This paper investigates how a monopolist optimally designs its product line when consumers differ both in their taste for quality and their desire for a positive ...
Berlin:
WZB,
2016,
48, 21 S.
(Discussion Paper / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; SP II 2016–202)
| Jana Friedrichsen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The actions by the European Central Bank (ECB) during the global and European crises have triggered a highly controversial debate, in particular in Germany, about the costs and benefits of the chosen policy path. The article reviews, compares, and evaluates the different arguments made in favor and against ECB policies around three key dimensions—the link of the policy path to price stability, financial ...
In:
CESifo Economic Studies
62 (2016), 1, S. 68-87
| Marcel Fratzscher
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DIW Discussion Papers 1558 / 2016
This paper uses a VAR-GARCH(1,1) model to analyse mean and volatility spillovers between macro news (in the form of newspaper headlines) and the exchange rates vis-avis both the US dollar and the euro of the currencies of a group of emerging countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey over the period 02/1/2003-23/9/2014. The results ...
2016| Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Fabio Spagnolo, Nicola Spagnolo
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Data Documentation 83 / 2016
This data documentation introduces to nodal dispatch models and the literature of the ELMOD model framework, which focuses on bottom-up electricity sector models with detailed spatial representation of the transmission system. The paper provides the technical description of ELMOD-DE, a nodal DC load flow model for the German electricity sector. In alignment with this paper, the described model, including ...
2016| Jonas Egerer
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Personality traits (also called noncognitive skills) are an important predictor for many economic outcomes and indicators of wellbeing, such as labor force participation, income, and health. While it is well established that personality changes during childhood and can be influenced by interventions, much less is known about whether personality is malleable during young adulthood. This is because...
16.03.2016| Kristin Kleinjans (California State University)