Vorträge des DIW Berlin

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

Asymmetric Information and Rollover Risk

How do banks choose their debt maturity structure when credit markets are subject to information frictions? This paper proposes a model of equilibrium maturity choice with asymmetric information and endogenous roll-over risk. We show that in the presence of public signals about firms' creditworthiness (credit ratings), firms choose to expose themselves to positive roll-over risk in order to...

Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives: Evidence from a German Pension

To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the evolution of the profitability of pension contributions against the background of this reform for cohorts 1935-...

Analyzing Economic Policies that Affect Supply and Demand: A Structural Model of Productivity, Labor Supply and Rationing

Is the Equal Sharing of Market Work and Family Duties Hampered by Financial Means or Constraints?: Evidence from a Structural Labor Supply Model with Involuntary Unemployment and Hours Constraints

Two Steps Forward - One Step Back? Evaluating Recent Child Care Policies in Germany

Monetary Policy, Bank Bailouts and the Sovereign-Bank Risk Nexus in the Euro Area

The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Child Health: Evidence from Mongolia

Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Internships on Labor Market Outcomes