Abstract: When prices change, consumers can respond by changing their spending patterns. In this paper, we estimate and utilise a consumer demand model of the Quadratic Almost Ideal (QUAIDS) form to analyse consumer demand in Mexico, and to explore some implications for indirect tax policy. The model covers virtually all categories of spending and is estimated using household expenditure and...
Within this interdisciplinary research project, the environmental and economic potential of biochar use in agriculture is analysed. Conducting field and pot experiments in Brandenburg (Germany) and Selangor (Malaysia), DIW's project partners investigate the environmental and yield effects of biochar. Based on these results, the research at DIW focuses on the greenhouse-gas-mitigation potential of...
Extent and Effects of Employees in Germany Forgoing Vacation TimeBy Daniel D. Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent ...
Add-On Premiums Increase Price Transparency : More Policy Holders Switch Health PlansBy Peter Eibich, Hendrik Schmitz, Nicolas R. Ziebarth in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly ...
"Poor Products at the Expense of Pension Policy Holders": Six Questions to Kornelia Hagen
Ten Years of the Riester Pension Scheme: No Reason to Celebrateby Kornelia Hagen, Axel Kleinlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Since their introduction, the Riester pension scheme and the individual Riester products have become less beneficial to savers. Contracts concluded today will often lead to lower returns compared to contracts concluded in 2001. From a social perspective, meaning pension ...
Since their introduction, the Riester pension scheme and the individual Riester products have become less beneficial to savers. Contracts concluded today will often lead to lower returns compared to contracts concluded in 2001. From a social perspective, meaning pension benefits in relation to individual saving contributions plus state subsidy, overall returns on all insurance-based products are very ...
The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly which, in turn, has encouraged policy holders to react to price hikes by switching to a different health insurance fund ("sickness fund"). In 2009, the government established ...
