The significance of natural gas is on the rise due to the restructuring and decarbonization of energy systems worldwide. Natural gas is widely available and flexible as it can be used in electricity generation, manufacturing, transport, and private households. Compared to other fossil fuels, natural gas produces relatively low carbon dioxide emissions during combustion. For this reason, the natural ...
In vector autoregressive analyses, confidence intervals for individual impulse responses are typically reported in order to indicate the sampling uncertainty in the estimation results. Various methods are reviewed, and a new method for the construction of joint confidence bands, given a prespecified coverage level, for the impulse responses at all horizons considered simultaneously, is proposed. The ...
As of 2005, and since 2008 in particular, child care provision for under-three-year-olds in Germany has been expanded across the board. We examine whether this expansion of services using evidence of a reduced burden on mothers and fathers with children in this age group has significantly increased these parents’ satisfaction with various areas of their lives. To shed more light on this issue, ...
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first results is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium tariffs can explode (shedding some light ...
DOI: 10.5684/soep.v29 As announced, we are now offering the SOEP data to all users in EEA countries for downloading-free of charge. We are delighted to provide our users this new possibility to download the SOEP data. We ensure the highest standards of data protection in transferring the SOEP data to you through use of the program Cryptshare, which offers completely encrypted transfers as well as ...
From December 12 to 13, the annual Graduate Center Winter Workshop will take place in the Schumpeter Hall of DIW Berlin. During the two day workshop, doctoral students will present their current research and receive feedback from their supervisors and peers. The program consists of 12 presentations that cover a large range of topics in economics and social sciences, including 4 by GC alumni. After...
The Graduate Center warmly invites all DIW colleagues to attend its annual Graduation Ceremony, which will be on December 13 in the Schumpeter Hall. In 2013 thirteen doctoral students successfully defended their doctoral theses. At the Ceremony, Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D., will give a commencement address. We have also invited Benedikt Bindewald and Maria Jadziewicz to perform a violin duet....
