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Production and Cost Structure in the Rail Industry

Measuring the Dunkelflaute: How (not) to Analyze Variable Renewable Energy Shortage

As variable renewable energy sources increasingly gain importance in global energy systems, there is a growing interest in understanding periods of variable renewable energy shortage (``Dunkelflauten''). Defining, quantifying, and comparing such shortage events across different renewable generation technologies and locations presents a surprisingly intricate challenge. Various approaches exist in different ...

Rent Control Effects through the Lens of Empirical Research: An Almost Complete Review of the Literature

Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since the 2010s, it is experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing chronic housing shortages are desperately looking for solutions, directing their attention to controling housing rents and other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it create more damage than utility? ...

Firm Heterogeneity and Carbon Leakage in the Production Network

Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

Expanding Long-term Care Insurance Could Reduce the Gender Care Gap in Germany

In many European countries, men and women differ significantly in the amount of informal care work they provide for relatives, with women acting as caregivers far more frequently than men. This difference, known as the gender care gap, varies considerably between European countries, with Germany somewhere in the middle of the distribution. This Weekly Report analyzes the institutional, societal, and ...

Inclusive, Affordable and Sustainable Housing for Marginalized Communities (HouseInc)

The objective of HouseInc is to analyse interlinked dimensions of housing inequalities in the context of marginalized communities. HouseInc will empirically examine economic, social, and ecological drivers and assess impacts of various indicators on housing inequality to derive policy recommendations that foster the adoption of effective measures addressing housing inequality across Europe....

Call for the 1st German-Polish Ph.D. Summer School in Economics

The Graduate Center of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw (FES UW) are organizing a German-Polish Summer School for Ph.D. students in economics in Warsaw September 9-14, 2024. The distinguished, internationally renowned lecturers will be Prof. Jeffrey Wooldridge (Michigan State University) and Prof. Monica Costa-Dias ...

Best Paper Award 2024 for Robin Sogalla

Robin Sogalla, Ph.D. Student of the Firms and Markets Department, received the Best Paper Award 2024 at the conference of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna for his paper "Unilateral Climate Policy and Heterogeneous Firms". Congratulations!

No Lasting Increase in the Gender Care Gap in Germany after the Coronavirus Pandemic

The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work—such as childcare and housework—performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may grow even larger. In ...