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  • DIW Economic Bulletin 40/41/42 / 2016

    Asking More Than One Question Is Key: Nine Questions to Lukas Menkhoff

    2016
  • SOEPpapers 849 / 2016

    Leisure and Housing Consumption after Retirement: New Evidence on the Life-Cycle Hypothesis

    We revisit the alleged retirement consumption puzzle. According to the life-cycle theory, foreseeable income reductions such as those around retirement should not affect consumption. However, we first recall that given higher leisure endowments after retirement, the theory does predict a fall of total market consumption expenditures. In order not to mistake this predicted drop for a puzzle we focus ...

    2016| Sven Schreiber, Miriam Beblo
  • Diskussionspapiere 1562 / 2016

    Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and if So, When?

    In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly heterogeneous: Financial education is less effective for lowincome clients as well as in low and lower-middle ...

    2016| Tim Kaiser, Lukas Menkhoff
  • Externe Monographien

    Signals Sell: Designing a Product Line when Consumers Have Social Image Concerns

    One important function of consumption is for consumers to show off their taste, virtue or wealth. While empirical observations suggest that producers take this into account, existing research has concentrated on analyzing the demand side. This paper investigates how a monopolist optimally designs its product line when consumers differ both in their taste for quality and their desire for a positive ...

    Berlin: WZB, 2016, 48, 21 S.
    (Discussion Paper / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; SP II 2016–202)
    | Jana Friedrichsen
  • Externe Monographien

    Three Topics in Agriculture: Private Quality Standards, Marketing Channels, and Biochar ; Dissertation

    Berlin: HU Berlin, 2016, XIX, 288 S. | Isabel Teichmann
  • Berlin IO Day

    The 5th Berlin IO Day

    The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international...

    25.09.2015
  • Research Project

    Global Food Markets: Global Food Security - Challenge for Production and Consumption

    Scarce resources, the rising demand for agricultural products and growing land-use competition between the production of energy and food have increased the importance of strategies for food security. In the research project “Global Food Markets: Global Food Security – Challenges for Production and Consumption” both supply and demand-oriented approaches that can realize sustainable supply increases...

    Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Public Economics
  • Berlin IO Day

    The 4th Berlin IO Day

    The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the...

    13.03.2015
  • Research Project

    Leibniz ScienceCampus Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP)

    Promoting consumers’ rights, prosperity, and wellbeing are core values of the European Union. A wide array of laws, institutions, and regulations – which can be generally termed as consumer policies – aim at protecting consumers by ensuring adequate and truthful information in the marketplace as well as preventing firms from engaging in unfair and competition-impairing practices. While some of...

    Current Project| Firms and Markets
  • Externe Monographien

    Financial Literacy and Peer Effects: Causes and Consequences ; Dissertation

    Hannover: Leibniz Univ., 2015, 187 S. | Antonia Grohmann
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