The innovation policy of the German government and Länder provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a wide range of programs to promote their research and development (R&D) and focuses, in particular, on the transfer of knowledge. In recent years, the programs have been streamlined and funding substantially increased as part of the second economic stimulus package. SMEs have profited ...
Politics and business often involve making risky or dangerous decisions whose outcomes can be predicted only with difficulty, if at all. As attitudes toward risks and dangers vary between individuals, it is reasonable that people with different attitudes are active in areas requiring decisions with differing degrees of risk. For example, it has frequently been observed that entrepreneurs are more risk-loving ...
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relativistic: One group suffers relative to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others-are exophobic-or because they favor their own kind-are endophiles? We conduct a field experiment in which graders at one university are randomly assigned students' exams that did or did not contain the students'...
In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so far. Our non-parametric approach closes this gap and can be used as a tentative warning system for emerging ...
Panel | Short StatementsProf. Georges Siotis, Senior Economic Advisor to the EU Commission's Task Force for GreeceDr. Ludger Schuknecht, Director General I, Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Affairs, International Financial and Monetary Policy, Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D., President of DIW BerlinChairProf. Dr. Alexander Kritikos, Research Director at DIW Berlin Greece...
By: Elke Holst and Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013. Despite the commitment that has been expressed by German companies to bringing more women into top management, at the end of 2012, only four percent of all seats on the executive boards and just under 13 percent on the supervisory boards of the top 200 companies in Germany were occupied by women. This corresponds to an increase of ...
By: Elke Holst and Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013. In the German financial sector, the majority of employees are women, but it is still men who hold the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks, they were still vastly underrepresented at the end of 2012 (up 1 percentage point from the end of 2011). The story is similar ...
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013 "Slight Rise in Number of Female Executives": Seven Questions to Elke Holst
