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DIW Discussion Papers 1383 / 2014
The Russian-Ukrainian crisis has revitalized the European concerns of supply disruptions of natural gas as experienced in 2006 and 2009. However, the European supply situation, regulation and infrastructure have changed since: imports aremore diversified, EU member states better connected and a common regulation on the security of supply has been introduced. Nevertheless, several East European countries ...
2014| Philipp M. Richter, Franziska Holz
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BeNA - Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung
Abstract: Child-raising pension benefits in Germany are designed as a compensation for maternal employment interruptions due to child-birth. In comparison to most other family benefits, child-raising pension benefits are accumulated upon child birth but become effective only on the verge of retirement. Hence, the extent to which child-raising pension benefits are determinants of the maternal...
28.05.2014| Andreas Thiemann
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Family background has long-lasting effects on labour market outcomes. A crucial period is the transition from the educational system to the labour market. It is here that inequality can get reinforced through an unsuccessful transition involving low work attachment and low pay. A bad first experience has been shown to have long-lasting effects, making this an important point for any policy...
28.05.2014| Wouter Zwysen (ISER, University of Essex/UK)
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Event
with Fred Bergsten | Director Emeritus of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)Moderation: Marcel Fratzscher | President of DIW BerlinGermany, for solid economic as well as geopolitical reasons, has clearly indicated that it will pay whatever is necessary to preserve the euro. But its preference for financing the deficit countries rather than helping them reduce their...
10.06.2014
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to the system of financial support for ...
In:
Baltic Journal of Economics
13 (2013) 2, S. 59-83
| Michal Myck, Anna Kurowska, Michal Kundera
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Refereed essays Web of Science
People typically want to feel good. At times, however, they seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect. The prevalence of such contrahedonic motivation has been related to simultaneous experiences of positive and negative (i.e., mixed) affect. We investigated the role that implicit mental representations of affect valence may play in this regard in a study with N = 400 ...
In:
Emotion
14 (2014), 5, S. 950-961
| Michaela Riediger, Gert G. Wagner, Cornelia Wrzus
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Pricing and selling strategies in the retail sector are hotly debated in policy circles. This article analyses the impact of sales below cost on the negotiation outcomes in intermediate goods markets. Assuming that consumers have a sufficiently strong preference for one-stop shopping, we model below-cost pricing as the result of a profit-maximising cross-subsidisation strategy of a multi-product retailer. ...
In:
European Review of Agricultural Economics
42 (2015), 2, S. 269-286
| Vanessa von Schlippenbach
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The career concerns literature predicts that incentives for effort decline as beliefs about ability become more precise (Holmström, 1982, 1999). In contrast, we show that effort can increase with belief precision when agents compete for promotions to better paid jobs that are assigned on the basis of perceived abilities. In this case, an intermediate level of precision provides the strongest incentive ...
In:
The Economic Journal
125 (2015), 589, S. 1952-1963
| Jeanin Miklós-Thal, Hannes Ullrich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Reference price systems for prescription drugs constitute widely adopted cost containment tools. Under these regimes, patients co-pay a fraction of the difference between a drug's pharmacy retail price and a reference price that is set by the government. Reference prices are either externally (based on drug prices in other countries) or internally (based on domestic drug prices) determined. We study ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
36 (2014), S.174-187
| Ulrich Kaiser, Susan J. Méndez, Thomas Rønde, Hannes Ullrich
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DIW Discussion Papers 1381 / 2014
Political instability of several countries in the Middle East is overshadowing one of the biggest challenges of the upcoming century: Water - a natural resource that is easily taken for granted, but whose scarcity might lead to serious conflicts. This paper investigates an optimal Water Allocation of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivershed by introducing the WATER-Model. A series of scenarios are analyzed ...
2014| Pao-Yu Oei, Markus Siehlow