This year's SOEPcampus at datalab2013@Universität Bielefeld "Analysepotentiale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten - Längsschnittliche und kontextbezogene Daten" will take place from September 24-26 (the workshop will be held in German).
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds. However, perverse market timing manifests ...
The International Energy Agency regularly reviews the energy policies of each of its member countries. Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Germany 2013 Review presents the results of the latest IEA assessment of Germany's policies. This review analyses the energy-policy challenges facing Germany and provides recommendations for further policy improvements. It is intended to help guide the country...
The management of congestion within the German electricity transmission network has become more important during the last years. This emerging relevance is caused by the increase of renewable generation and the partial phaseout of nuclear power plants. Both developments yield a change in the transmission flow pattern and thus the need for congestion management. Currently, four German transmission system ...
Abstract: While recognition is considered a major employee motivation tool by HRM practitioners, sound empirical evidence on its efficacy is just beginning to appear. We contribute to this nascent evidence by running a field experiment involving students on a large undergraduate course. Our treatment, given in randomly selected student groups, was to publicly recognize students who scored within...
By: Daniel Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 05/2013. For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. ...
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 05/2013 "In Germany, Equal Opportunities Are Almost as Bad as in the US and Much Worse Than in Denmark". Nine Questions to Daniel Schnitzlein
