Holger Lüthen, department of Public Economics, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title “Essays on long-term labor market developments and retirement in Germany" was supervised by Giacomo Corneo (Freie Universität Berlin) and Peter Haan (DIW, Freie Universität Berlin). The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl ...
We analyze the electricity transmission planning process in Germany (Netzentwicklungsplan), which separates transmission expansion decisions from generation dispatch. We employ an economic modeling approach to analyze two different network planning settings. In the first setting, there is no trade-off between transmission network development and generation dispatch, as is currently the case in Germany. ...
Christopher Boortz has sucessfully defended his dissertation on June 21st at the Free University of Berlin. The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates him on his success!
The BCCP conference took place at the Humboldt-University Berlin on June 17, 2016. Big data is transforming the world we live in. The instant availability of information impacts how individuals consume, how businesses thrive or fail, how society makes scientific discoveries, as well as how governments design and implement informed policies. At a pace and scale unanticipated 20 years ago...
We would like to remind you of the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and encourage you to consider using this instrument in developing new empirical research questions. SOEP-IS is well suited to short-term experiments, but it is particularly useful for long-term surveys that are not possible in the framework of the core SOEP—whether because the instruments are not yet established ...
In this article we argue that the current endeavors to achieve open access in scientific literature require a discussion about innovation in scholarly publishing and research infrastructure. Drawing on path dependence theory and addressing different open access (OA) models and recent political endeavors, we argue that academia is once again running the risk of outsourcing the organization of its c ...
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993–2010, we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work incentives at the extensive margin measured by ...
