To describe the SOEP-LEE data, which are available in the DSZ-BO Bielefeld, we provide the following documents: Erhebungsinstrumente und Datenkodierung der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 304 Methodenbericht der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 305 Datenhandbuch der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen ...
Data from the first wave of the study PIAAC-L have been released on March 31st 2016. PIAAC-L is a joint project of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin, and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). In 2014, around 4,000 people in Germany between the ages of 18 and 67 who had previously taken part in PIAAC 2012 (Programme ...
In the latest Spotlight, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher explains why helicopter money offers the possibility to “circumvent” the banking system and make loans and funding directly available to households and private companies, which would help the ECB to fulfill their price stability mandate again. Video
In the latest Spotlight, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher explains why helicopter money offers the possibility to “circumvent” the banking system and make loans and funding directly available to households and private companies, which would help the ECB to fulfill their price stability mandate again.
This paper shows that bank liquidity regulation may be a "double-edged sword." Under certain conditions, it may hamper, rather than strengthen, a bank’s resilience to financial stress. The reason is the existence of two opposing effects of liquidity regulation, a liquidity effect and a solvency effect. The liquidity effect arises because a bank mitigates its risk of illiquidity when it increases its ...
After the outbreak of the global financial crisis, some governments in the EU experienced serious fiscal problems, while others were less affected. This paper seeks to shed light on the divergent fiscal performance in the EU countries before and after the outbreak of the crisis. Fiscal reaction functions of the primary balance are estimated for different groups of EU countries using quarterly data ...
Sarah Dahmann, a doctoral student of the German Socio-Economic Panel department, was awarded the "Sir Alec Cairncross Award" for her paper "How Does Education Improve Cognitive Skills? Instructional Time versus Timing of Instruction" at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Scottish Economic Society. The prize was handed over to Sarah by nobel lauterate Sir Christopher Pissarides.
