Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Adverse Effects of Increased Education Efficiency? The Impact of Shortening High School Tenure on Graduation Age, Grade Repetitions and Graduation Rates

Personality Traits and Preferences for College Education

Soziale Disparitäten in der Qualität frühkindlicher Bildung

Interdisziplinäre Bildungsforschung und Politikberatung: Workshop

A Rising Tide Lifts All Budgets?

Ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Indikatorensystem zur Messung von Sicherheit und Sicherheitswirtschaft in Deutschland

Die Rolle von Kriminalität und Innerer Sicherheit in Printmedien und Politik

About Attitudes and Perceptions: Finding the Proper Way to Consider Latent Variables in Discrete Choice Models

Strukturprobleme der Finanzierung der sozialen Sicherheit: Colloquium

Natural Disasters and Environmental Concerns: The Case of the 2013 Flood in Germany

International Interventions to Build Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sudan

Crop Failures and Export Tariffs

We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first results is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium tariffs can explode (shedding some...

Does the Foreign Interest Rate Matter for Monetary Policy? Evidence from Nonlinear Taylor Rules

Closing the Gender Pay Gap and Individual Task Profiles: Women's Advantages from Technological Progress

Wieviel Markt am Arbeitsmarkt - Mindestlohn, Zuwanderung und Sozialsystem: Panel der ARGE-Institute

A Global Monetary Tsunami? On the Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing

From Gross Wages to Net Household Income: A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

European Electricity Grid Infrastructure Expansion in a 2050 Context

The European climate targets until 2050 require an adaptation of the generation portfolio in terms of renewable and fossil based generation. Assumptions on the timeline of the targets and the availability and costs of generation technologies are used in energy system models to optimize the cost minimal system transformation. The results include investments in generation technologies and their...

The Introduction of Disincentives for Early Retirement and Its Effect on Labor Market Participation