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DIW Roundup 61 / 2015
Not just since the European Central Bank announced the large-scale purchase of government bonds a few weeks ago, large-scale asset purchases have always been a controversially discussed topic. This DIW Roundup summarizes the measures that have been taken by central banks in Japan, USA and UK and the empirical evidence about the impacts of these measures on financial markets and the real economy.
2015| Kerstin Bernoth, Philipp König, Carolin Raab
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Seminar
Dynamics of Factor Productivity Dispersions
15.04.2015| Christian Bayer, University of Bonn
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Berlin Seminar
Der Klimagipfel im Paris Ende des Jahres soll den Durchbruch bringen - ein globales Abkommen, das (differenzierte) Pflichten zum Klimaschutz für alle Staaten enthält und das Kyoto-Protokoll ersetzt. Allerdings sind sich alle Beteiligten, Diplomaten und NGOs, gleichermaßen einig, dass dieses Abkommen nicht den Erfordernissen für die Erreichung des 2°C-Ziels entsprechen wird...
15.04.2015
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SOEPpapers 745 / 2015
Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that maximal life satisfaction is associated with about eight hours of sleep on a typical weekday. This figure represents, ...
2015| Alan T. Piper
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SOEPpapers 746 / 2015
Measures of affordability are applied in practice, e.g., to assess the affordability of energy services, water or housing. They can be interpreted as measures of deprivation in a specific domain of consumption. The large body of literature on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive assessment of the response of affordability measures ...
2015| Peter Heindl, Rudolf Schüssler
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DIW Roundup 60 / 2015
In the face of interest rates having hit their zero lower bound in major economies, large-scale asset purchases have become an important weapon of central banks in recent years. It is, however, not clear whether and under which circumstances such policy measures produce the desired effects. This round-up provides a selective overview of theoretical research that has been devoted to understand under ...
2015| Carolin Raab, Philipp König, Kerstin Bernoth
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Report
We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 108, April 2015.
We have some interesting news about
SOEP-IS data distribution 2013
a note on regional and contextual data sources
SOEP questionnaire 2016
news from Ohio State University
some upcoming events, and some past conferences/workshops (e.g., on qualitative data and the SOEP)
and many more ...
We hope you'll ...
01.04.2015
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Report
by Christian Westermeier and Markus M. Grabka
The analyses of wealth inequality based on survey data usually suffer from undercoverage of the upper percentiles of the very wealthy. Yet given this group’s substantial share of total net worth, it is of particular relevance. As no tax data are available in Germany, the largest fortunes can only be simulated using “rich lists.” For example, ...
01.04.2015
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DIW Discussion Papers 1465 / 2015
Foundational to the discipline of management is the idea that organizational decisions are a function of expected outcomes; hence, the customary empirical approach to employ multivariate techniques that regress performance outcome variables on discrete measures of organizational choices (e.g., investments, trainings, strategies and other managerial decision variables) potentially suffer from self-selection ...
2015| Joseph Clougherty, Tomaso Duso
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Press Release
Few assets in comparison to the rest of the population—those living alone are particularly affectedSo-called “care households”—that is, households in which a person over the age of 60 and in need of long-term care resides—have similar household incomes to “non-care households,” in which no care-dependent person lives. But care-dependent individuals are more ...
01.04.2015