We are pleased to present highlights of the 11th SOEP User Conference in this short video. SOEP2014 Video Report
For the third time the Graduate Center Summer Workshop took place in the avendi Hotel at Griebnitz Lake in Potsdam from July 2nd to 4th 2014. One more time it turned out to be a big success for the participating students. During the three-day workshop, GC11 and GC12 doctoral students presented their current research and received feedback from their supervisors and peers. The workshop was well attended ...
The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and the Free University Berlin (FU Berlin) invite researchers from all disciplines, policy makers and practitioners from across the globe to participate in the 2014 Quality of Life Conference "Sustaining Quality of Life across the Globe".Conference topics Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual ApplicationsEmpirical...
Empirical research is seeking through methodological processes to discover, hopefully, nontrivial facts and insights. Beside choosing a topic and grounding an idea in theory, empirical research consists of gathering and analysing data as well as presenting results in scientific contexts in order to contribute new issues to the body of acquired knowledge - not only to someone‘s own but...
The DIW Berlin organizes its annual workshop on macroeconometricmodelling. The workshop will be held at the German Institute for Economic Research, in the center of Berlin.The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.
Panel Discussion with Erik Nielsen, Global Chief Economist of UniCreditProf. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D., President and CEO of DIW Berlin and Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Humboldt-University BerlinProf. Mark Hallerberg, Ph.D., Professor for Public Management & Political Economy at Hertie School of GovernanceProf. Jörg Rocholl, Ph.D., President of European School of Management...
I examine the effects of increasing amounts of fluctuating renewable energy on residual load, which is defined as the difference between actual power demand and the feed-in of non-dispatchable and inflexible generators. I draw on policy-relevant scenarios for Germany and make use of extensive sensitivity analyses. Whereas yearly renewable surplus energy is low in most scenarios analyzed, peak surplus ...
Greece finds itself at the crossroads. There is the imminent question if Greece should apply for a third public support programme. Government officials are confronting European partners with new calls for a de facto haircut on its outstanding debt. Another option would be to swap existing loans from the European support programs into GDP-linked loans. As a result, interest payments would be linked ...
