Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Is Car Drivers' Response to Congestion Charging Schemes Based on the Correct Perception of Price Signals?

This paper deals with the question how the capability of car drivers to estimate travel distance, travel time, fuel costs and other motoring costs as well as the cost of a new hypothetical congestion charge influences their decision to change their travel behaviour. The analysis makes use of an integrated choice and latent variable model (ICLV) which merges classic choice models with the...

Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit

Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost inefficiency of local public bus companies in Germany, where a complex system allocates ample financial support....

The Business Case of Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

Modelling for Determinants of Human Trafficking

Liquidity Crises, Banking, and the Great Recession

The Impact of Introducing an Interest Barrier: Evidence from the German Corporation Tax Reform 2008

In this study we investigate the impact of the thin capitalization rule newly introduced in Germany in 2008 on firms' capital structure, investment and profitability. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses within the regulation using a difference-in-difference approach. Our results suggest that firms strongly react to the new regulation in order to avoid the...

Differential Taxation and Firms' Financial Leverage: Evidence from the Introduction of a Flat Tax on Interest Income

How Do Taxes Affect Investment When Firms Face Financial Constraints?

This study uses a switching regression framework with known sample separation to analyze the effects of corporate income taxation on investment in case of binding and nonbinding financial constraints. By employing two different sample splitting criteria, payout behavior and the ratio of liabilities to total assets, I show that the elasticity of capital to its user costs in an auto-distributed-lag...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Second Moments

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are unbiased estimates in the absence of instruments and parameter interpretation that is not bounded to local...

Risk and Returns to Educational Fields: A Financial Asset Approach to Vocational and Academic Education

Fundamental Problems with Non-fundamental Shocks

Economic agents using information that is not incorporated in the econometric model is seen as a possible reason for why nonfundamental shocks are important in econometric models. Allowing for nonfundamental shocks in structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) analysis by considering moving average (MA) representations with roots in the complex unit circle is a possible response to the problem. A...

Emissionshandel: Mittler zwischen politischen Zielen und privatwirtschaftlichen Entscheidungen

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Can Couples Survive When the Mother Is the Main or an Equal Earner? Relationship Dissolution in Married and Cohabiting First Time Parents

Does Returning to Work Quickly and Full-Time Protect against Increasing Gender Inequality in Housework? A Comparison of Parent Couples in West-Germany and Britain

Liquidity Crises, Banking, and the Great Recession

Wiederbelebung der Arbeiten des Statistischen Reichsamts: eine Input-Output-Tabelle für das Deutsche Reich 1936

Metadaten aus Syntax-Dateien

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy