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Erhebungsinstrumente der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten 2016: Integrierter Personen- und Biografiefragebogen, Stichproben M3-M4

On this holiday season ...

DIW Berlin wishes you a happy festive season and a peaceful and prosperous new year in 2018!

Seasonal greetings

Wishing you the happiest of holidays and a healthy and successful 2018 On behalf of the whole SOEP team at DIW Berlin

SOEP 2018 Conference – Call for Papers

The call für papers and session contribution for our SOEP 2018 - 13th International German Socio-Economic Panel User ConferenceJuly 19–20, 2018, in Berlin is open until February 15, 2018. The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, ...

Electricity, Heat and Gas Sector Data for Modelling the German System

This data documentation describes a data set of the German electricity, heat, and natural gas sectors compiled within the research project ‘LKD-EU’ (Long-term planning and short-term optimization of the German electricity system within the European framework: Further development of methods and models to analyze the electricity system including the heat and gas sector). The project is a joined effort ...

Benchmarks for Emissions Trading – General Principles for Emissions Scope

Greenhouse gas emission benchmarks are widely implemented as a policy tool, as more countries move to implement carbon pricing mechanisms for industrial emissions. In particular, benchmarks are used to determine the level of free allowance allocation in emission trading schemes, which are distributed as a measure to prevent carbon leakage. This paper analyses how benchmark designs impact firms’ production ...

Time-Consistent Carbon Pricing

In this paper we show that carbon pricing is subject to time-inconsistency and we investigate solutions to improve on the problem and restore the incentive for the private sector to invest in low-carbon innovation. We show that a superior price- investment equilibrium can be sustained in the long-term, if the policy-maker is enough forward looking and allowed to build reputation. In the short-term, ...

DIW Berlin Economic Barometer December 2017: the boom continues despite an end-of-the-year damper

The Economic Barometer of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) dropped by four points in December to 109 points. However, the value above 100 still indicates above-average GDP growth in the fourth quarter by slightly more than half a percent when compared to the third quarter. "Economic growth in the final quarter will be somewhat weaker than before. Nonetheless, the bulging order ...

Tax Evasion in New Disguise? Examining Tax Havens’ International Bank Deposits

Recent efforts to reduce international tax evasion focus on information exchange with tax havens. Using bilateral bank data for 1,397 country pairs in a balanced quarterly panel from 2003:I – 2017:IV, we first show that information-on-request treaties with tax havens reduce bank deposits in tax havens by 27.5%. Second, also deposits from tax havens in high tax countries decline after such treaties ...

Intergenerational Effects of Education on Risky Health Behaviours and Long-Term Health

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented across federal states at different points in time, the reform increased the minimum number of school years from eight to nine. Instrumental variable estimates and ...