Mr. Kholodilin, how has the value of the ruble changed over the past few years? The exchange rate of Russian ruble has dropped considerably. In 2013, one euro was worth roughly 40 rubles; now, one euro is worth around 70 rubles. This devaluation is much stronger than it was during the Great Recession of 2008–2009. This interview with Konstantin Kholodilin is published in DIW ...
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it is important whether the incumbent re-runs. To account for the potential endogeneity associated with this ...
(together with Ludovica Gambaro and Frauke Peter)This study investigates whether the link between family dissolution and children’s educational attainment is contingent on the broader social and institutional context. The comparison of former capitalist West Germany and socialist East Germany presents an excellent case study as these countries differed considerably with regard to ideology...
The DIW Berlin organizes its annual workshop on macroeconometricmodelling. The workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research, in the center of Berlin.The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.
The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of Russian export disruption (Richter & Holz, 2015). However, the Netherlands have suffered from regular earthquakes in recent years that are related to the natural ...
This paper investigates the impact of indemnity payments from index insurance on the asset recovery of households after a catastrophic weather disaster occurs. Our focus is on the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Mongolia. We analyze the effect of IBLI indemnity payments after a once-in-50-year winter disaster struck Mongolia over 2009/10. The database for our analysis is three waves of a ...
How does xenophobic behavior and radical right-wing activity affect ethnic and immigrant minorities' political behavior? The extant literature on radical right-wing and xenophobic politics focuses exclusively on what drives these anti-immigrant political attitudes and behaviors, but does not account for how the targets of this animosity and threat react. Alternatively, the literature on immigrant...
