Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Inference of Choice Sets: Application to Grocery Retailing

Predicting the Equity Premium via Its Components

Top-Corrected Ginis

An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Tax record data offer more precise information on top incomes at the expense of household context details and incomes of non-filers at the bottom of the distribution. We combine the benefits of the two data sources and...

The Diffusion of "Green" Buildings in the Housing Market: Empirics on the Long Run Effects of Energy Efficiency Regulation

Does Subsidized Care for Toddlers Increase Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from a Large-Scale Expansion of Early Childcare

Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Productivity Growth and the Public and Private Ownership of Regulated Firms

Macroeconomic Gain and Pain of ECB Non-standard Monetary Policy

Considering the (Un)Observed: Temporary Agency Work In Productivity Estimations

Strengthening Enforcement in Unemployment Insurance: A Natural Experiment

Restrictions Search for Panel VARs

The Role of Time Preferences in Educational Decision Making

On the Importance of Testing Structural Identification Schemes and the Potential Consequences of Incorrectly Identified Models

Early Retirement Eligibility and Employment Behavior: Evidence from a Cohort Based Pension Reform

Calculating Joint Confidence Bands for Impulse Response Functions Using Highest Density Regions

This paper proposes a new non-parametric method of constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions of vector autoregressive models. The estimation uncertainty is captured by means of bootstrapping and the highest density region (HDR) approach is used to construct the bands. A Monte Carlo comparison of the HDR bands with existing alternatives shows that the former are competitive...

Free Allocation and the Endowment Effect in Cap-and-Trade Systems: Evidence from the European Electricity Sector

Unintended Consequences of Increased Education Efficiency for Higher Education Decisions

Binary Choice Belief Elicitation: An Adaptively Optimal Design

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