Mr. Fratzscher, there are concerns about an overall lack of investment in Germany. Is the problem more urgent in the public sector or in the private sector? The investment gap exists in both the public and private sector. Three years ago, we calculated that Germany’s investment gap amounts to roughly 75 billion euros per year. The investment gap has also been confirmed by ...
Although the federal government has been taking steps to strengthen investment in Germany, it remains considerably low. This includes private investment, on which thepresent study focuses. German companies are barely investing more than they did before the crisis, but this is not the case elsewhere: in the US, for example, the level of investment is nearly 14 percent higher than it was in 2007. One ...
Energy sectors—primarily power generation and gas production, but also energy transmission and distribution—require significant capital investment in infrastructure. Market structures as well as the degree of competition and regulation are key factors that determine firms’ incentive to invest. Yet the empirical research on the link between these factors and private investment is still quite scarce, ...
After the Paris Climate Agreement, it is anticipated that carbon prices will differ across regions for some time. If countries use free allowance allocation as carbon leakage protection, only a fraction of carbon prices are passed through to consumers particularly by carbon intensive materials producers. Adding a consumption charge based on benchmarks applied to the material content can reinstate the ...
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
The data from the 2014 survey of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) have now been released and can be ordered by SOEP users. Up to now, they have been provided through a secure website. The current data distribution contains the data from the 2011, 2012, and 2013 innovative modules. The SOEP-IS contained the following innovative modules in 2011: Implicit Association Test (IAT) and corresponding ...
Katharina Mahne is a Sociologist and Director of the German Aging Survey (DEAS) at the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) in Berlin. She began her research career as a student assistant in the SOEP 10 years ago. Since then, she has been doing research on social relationships within families. Her current focus is on the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. She is one of the few researchers ...
