In 2012, Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl is the new Dean of the DIW Graduate Center.Helmut Lütkepohl is an internationally renowned econometrician and former professor at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2011 he has been voted the no. 1 German Economists Abroad in a ranking published by the newspaper Handelsblatt. While strengthing the GC's portfolio, Helmut Lütkepohl also ...
This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent economic outcomes in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US. This holds true for...
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother's impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of six or twelve months. The findings demonstrate ...
Empirical evidence so far found ambiguous results for the direction of effect of marginal income tax rates on employee remuneration. Based on the GSOEP data from 2002 through 2008 this study analyzes the impact of the marginal tax load on the employee side on the wage rate also allowing average tax rates and employer payroll taxes to play a role. Instrumental variable estimation based on counterfactual ...
This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among low-income people in southern Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance product - and how their negative and/or positive evaluations have come about. The evidence indicates that (micro)insurance ...
For the first time, the GC offers a course in Advanced Microeconomics in cooperation with the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS). The lecturers are Ulrich Kameke (HU Berlin), Dorothea Kübler (WZB, TU Berlin) and Georg Weizsäcker (DIW Berlin, UCL). The course is open for students from both programs. GC students also participate in the Advanced Macroeconomics ...
On the 5th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics of the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics Martin Simmler from DIW Berlin received the “Best Paper Award” for his work on “How Do Taxes Affect Investment When Firms Face Financial Constraints?” In this study, the author analyzes the effects of corporate income taxation on firms' investment in case of binding and non-binding financial ...
We happily announce that the newest cohort started the GC program on October 1st, 2011. 14 outstanding doctoral students will work through the first year’s intensive curriculum and pursue their PhDs raising the total number of GC students currently enrolled in the program to 58.Learn more about our new students here.
