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  • November 30, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Domestic Politics and the Formation of International Environmental Agreements

    Speaker: Simon Dietz, LSE
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • November 30 - December 1, 2012

    Workshop

    Macroeconometric Workshop 2012

    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    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.

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  • November 28, 2012

    Seminar

    Reagan's Innovation Dividened? Technological Impacts of the 1980s US Defense Build-Up
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Mirko Draca (London School of Economics)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: US government spending since World War II has been characterized by large investments in defense related goods, services and R&D. In turn, this means that the Department of Defense (DoD) has had a large role in funding corporate innovation in the US. This paper looks at the impact of military procurement spending on corporate innovation among publicly traded firms for the period 196 ...

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  • November 28, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Regional Differences in Retirement Timing

    Speaker: Susanne Strauss (University of Tuebingen, currently guest researcher at DIW Berlin)
    Location: Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002C
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

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  • November 28, 2012

    Seminar

    A frontier measure of US banking competition

    Speaker: Wilko Bolt, De Nederlandsche Bank
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00-13:30 Uhr

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  • November 23, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    The Eff ect of Financial Access on Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nepal

    Speaker: Margherita Comola, Paris School of Economics
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    Abstract: We study how an exogenous expansion in formal financial access affects the structure of the network of financial transactions. We use a unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of financial transactions before and after a field experiment that randomly gave access to a savings account to half of the households in 19 slums in Nepal. We provide evidence that ...

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  • November 21, 2012

    Seminar

    Sector choice, wages, firm structure, and tournament incentives: Evidence from comparing the Swedish private and public sectors
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Klaus Brösamle (Hertie School of Governance)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper studies the decision of Swedish employees to work in the private or public sector. While the existing sector choice literature focusses on (spot) wage differentials, this paper studies additionally how the expected payoffs from internal promotion tournaments affect sector choice. Jobs promising higher wage ‘prizes' and with higher a priori likelihoods of winning those ...

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  • November 21, 2012

    Seminar

    A Gaussian mixture autoregressive model for univariate time series

    Speaker: Pentti Saikkonen, University of Helsinki
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00-13:30 Uhr

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  • November 21, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects using Hierarchical Bayes Models

    Speaker: joint work with Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    AbstractThis paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany and combine rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county-level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our findings reveal strong ...

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  • November 19, 2012

    Seminar

    The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

    Speaker: Daniel Sturm, LSE
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 17:15-18:45

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  • November 16, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Globalization, Trust Goods and International Civil Society

    Speaker: Sebastian Krautheim, Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • November 15 - 16, 2012

    Workshop

    Workshop in writing skills for young scientists

    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 09:00-18:00

    The Communications Department invites graduates and young scientists to participate in a 2-day-workshop on writing and publication skills. The workshop on Nov 15 and 16, 2012, will cover topic selection, structure of an article in the DIW’s main publication “Wochenbericht”, presenting your research to the media and several hands on –writing trainings. We will give each you ...

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  • November 14, 2012

    Seminar

    Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects using Hierarchical Bayes Models
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Peter Eibich (HU Berlin)
    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21b
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany and combine rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county-level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our findings reveal ...

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  • November 9, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    An Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting

    Speaker: Jesper Bagger, Royal Holloway, University of London
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • November 8 - 9, 2012

    Seminar

    Annual Doctoral Research Seminar

    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21b
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin

    On 8-9 November 2012, the Research Committee on Development Economics (AEL) of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) will hold a doctoral research seminar at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Amoung the discussants will be Dierk Herzer, Isabel Günther, Stefan Klonner, Jann Lay, and Tilman Brück who is also organizing the seminar this year. The aims of the seminar are to enable advanced ...

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  • November 7, 2012

    Seminar

    High Wage Workers and High Wage Peers
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Michele Battisti (Ifo Institute Munich)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of coworker characteristics on wages, measured by the average person effect of coworkers in a wage regression. The effect of interest is identified from within-firm changes in workforce composition, controlling for person effects, firm effects, and sector-specific time trends. My estimates are based on a linked employer employee dataset for the ...

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  • November 7, 2012

    Seminar

    The regulator's trade-off: Bank supervision vs. minimum capital

    Speaker: Florian Buck, LMU München
    Location: Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.001
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00-13:30 Uhr

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  • November 7, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Liquidity Constraints and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Pseudo Panel Estimation with German Consumption Survey Data

    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Abstract:This paper empirically investigates the relevance of liquidity constraints and excess sensitivity in intertemporal household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the consumption responses to permanent and transitory income shocks, as well as the presence of excess sensitivity to anticipated income changes. A ...

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  • November 6, 2012

    Berlin Seminar

    Pricing Carbon - Tackling the Deficit and Enabling Growth?

    Speaker: Peter Wehrheim, Reiner Kneifel-Haverkamp
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    Peter Wehrheim |Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Climate ActionReiner Kneifel-Haverkamp |Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Europaangelegenheiten, BrandenburgWolfgang Wienkemeier |Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz, Mecklenburg-VorpommernThe European Commission has proposed that 20% of the EUR 1025 billion member states are to receive for the 2014-2020 period ...

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  • November 2, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing

    Speaker: Guido Friebel, Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    Abstract: We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant is accompanied by qualitative slant; newspapers report in a more negative way about ...

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