Vorträge des DIW Berlin

The Effect of Job Loss on Health-Related Behaviour

Discussant: Financial Crises, Credit Booms and External Imbalances

Differences in the Pattern of In-work Poverty between Germany and Great Britain: What Role Does Union Power Play?

Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a...

Umfrageforschung - Entscheidungsgrundlage für Politik und Wirtschaft: Einführung in das Thema

Das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis in der umfragebasierten Politikberatung: Keynote Speech

Frauen und Männer in Führungspositionen

Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...

Are Uzbeks Better Off? Economic Welfare and Ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan

Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Stability: What Role do Heterogeneous Banks Play?

The Global Economic Costs of Conflict

The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

The Puntland Pirate Economy

Group Violence, Ethnic Diversity, and Citizen Participation: Evidence from Indonesia

Fördermittel für Wärme aus erneuerbaren Energien

Finanzmarktwächter als ökonomisches Instrument und aus der Sicht der empirisch angewandten wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung

Joint Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

It is increasingly observable that in different industries competitors jointly acquire and share customer data. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such agreements and their welfare implications. In our model the incentives of firms for data acquisition and sharing depend on the willingness of consumers to switch brands....

Economics of Privacy

Economic Situation and Inflation Control

Die ökonomischen Chancen einer nachhaltigen Energiewende