Vorträge des DIW Berlin

On the Incidence of Renewable Energy Subsidies into Land Prices: Evidence from Germany

The disappearance of capital income from the income tax base in many countries poses a major challenge to the comparability of top income share series based on income tax statistics both over time and between countries. First, we extend the existing German series including capital gains to 2010. Second, we derive three homogeneous series by simulating legislative definitions of capital income...

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Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

We investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential well-being in Germany, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a unique novel panel data set on more than 20,000 wind turbines for the time period between 2000 and 2012. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), we calculate the proximity between households and the nearest wind turbine...

Testing for Identification in Structural Vector Autoregressions with GARCH Residuals

Structural Vector Autoregressions with Smooth Transition in Variances: The Interaction between U.S. Monetary Policy and the Stock Market

Labor Supply under Participation and Hours Constraints: An Extended Structural Model for Policy Evaluations

Learning from Unrealized versus Realized Prices

The Effect of Peer Observation on Consumption Choices: Experimental Evidence

Hidden Skewness: On the Difficulty of Multiplicative Compounding under Random Shocks

Peer Effects in Labor Supply Decisions of Mothers with Young Children

Preference for College and Educational Inequality: Do Students Lack Information

The Greener, the Happier? The Effects of Urban Green and Abandoned Areas on Residential Well-Being

Learning from Unrealized versus Realized Prices

Analyzing the Continuity of Attitudinal and Perceptual Indicators in Hybrid Choice Models

Integration Policies for Science and Technology in Unified Germany

Job Search with Biased Expectations

Offset Credits in the EU Emissions Trading System: A Firm-Level Evaluation of Transaction Costs

Gender-Specific Remittances before and after the Economic Crisis: The Case of Germany

Macroeconomics and Gender: Challenges of Rebalancing Finance and the Real Economy: Roundtable

Why Do Women Favor In-group Competition? Evidence from an Incentivized Choice Experiment