Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Personality Traits and Preferences for College Education

Estimating the Impact of Alternative Multiple Imputation Methods on Longitudinal Wealth Data

Statistical Analysis in surveys is often facing missing data. As case-wise deletion and single imputation prove to have undesired properties, multiple imputation remains as a measure to handle this problem. In a longitudinal study, where for some missing values past or future data points might be available, the question arises how to successfully transform this advantage into better imputation...

Network Expansion to Mitigate Market Power: How Increased Integration Fosters Welfare

Lack of transmission capacity hampers the integration of the European electricity market, and thereby precludes reaping the full benefits of competition. We investigate the extent to which transmission grid expansion promotes competition, efficiency and welfare. This work proposes a three-stage model for grid investment: a benevolent planner decides on network upgrades, considering welfare...

Deterrence in EU Merger Policy

We estimate the deterrence effects of EU merger policy instruments over the 1990-2009 period. Our results suggest that phase-1 remedies uniquely involve robust deterrence in the European context, as they lead to fewer merger notifications in subsequent years. Furthermore, merger-policy actions as a whole – as well as preventions, phase-2 remedies, and phase-1 withdrawals – do not appear to yield...

Automatic Coding of Occupations: Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Occupation Coding in Several German Panel Surveys

In recent years several German large-scale panel studies demonstrated the demand for the coding of open-ended survey questions on respondents’ occupations (e. g. the National Education Panel Study (NEPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS)). So far occupational coding in Germany is mostly done semi-automatically, employing...

How Does Day-Care Availability Affect Parental Well-Being? Disentangling Different Mechanisms

Understanding the Effect of Retirement on Health Using Regression Discontinuity Design

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

Challenges for Future Family Policy

Lessons from German Reunification

The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Antidiabetics

How Does Differential Fuel Taxation Impact New Car Purchases?

Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms: Does Fixed-Term Employment Matter?

A growing proportion of employees are working under fixed-term contracts. This paper empirically analyzes whether this strategy actually improves firm productivity. To this end, a largedata set of German manufacturing firms and various panel data models are used in order to reveal the expected non-linear effect. Thereby the analysis also takes into account distortions that may result from...

Success and Failure in Strategic Alliances: Theory and Experimental Evidence

This paper proposes a theoretical framework of strategic alliances that includes two observable dimensions of participating partners which have been identified in the literature as critical for success or failure. In particular, we first propose a simple static theory that links the degree of alliance partners' complementarities with the intensity of their competition in product markets. We show...

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Ausgewählte Ergebnisse Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf, Wohlergehen von Kindern

Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations

Business Confidence and Forecasting of Housing Prices and Rents in Large German Cities

The Spatial Dimension of U.S. House Price Developments

Determinants and Welfare Effects of Smallholder Export Participation in Kyrgyzstan