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Economic Bulletin
"A New Early Warning System Can Forecast Housing Bubbles". Six Questions to Konstantin Kholodilin
07.10.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: Strong Economic Growth - Major Challengesby Mechthild Schrooten in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2011Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the so-called BRICS countries - all show high economic growth rates. They suffered only shortly under the turbulences of the international financial crisis in 2008/2009 and were able to recover quickly - in contrast ...
07.10.2011
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Economic Bulletin
The Future of the International Monetary Systemby Ansgar Belke, Kerstin Bernoth, Ferdinand Fichtner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2011The financial crisis of 2007/2008 and the current "Euro crisis" challenge the current global monetary system. They drastically reveal the actual system's weaknesses und show the eminent importance of the international monetary system for the stability of markets ...
07.10.2011
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Report
On 15th September 2011, the Kyrgyztsan project team organised a workshop on "Panel Data and the Life in Kyrgyztsan Survey" in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The workshop was hosted by the American University of Central Asia and was funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Fifty representatives of the Kyrgyz government, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, universities, ...
29.09.2011
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Personnel news
Kornelia Hagen, Competition and Consumers Department, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board on Consumer and Food Policies for the upcoming three years by Federal Minister Ilse Aigner. The Scientific Advisory Board on Consumer and Food Policies at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has been established in 2002 to support the further development of consumer ...
27.09.2011
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Report
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Belke, Member of the "Monetary Experts Panel" of the European Parliament, on the European Central Banks' Change of Guard from Trichet to Draghi:First, the paper provides a review of the Trichet presidency and its main legacy with emphasis on polito-economic considerations. Second, it also delivers a preview of the Draghi presidency and evaluates the challenges the new president ...
16.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Alliance `90/The Greens at the Crossroads : on Their Way to Becoming a Mainstream Party?by Martin Kroh, Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011The Greens have been riding high in the polls for months now. In Baden-Württemberg, a stronghold of the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU), Winfried Kretschmann became the first Green party candidate to be elected Minister-President of any German ...
02.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Labor Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe : the Migration of Workers to Germany Has Been Limited in Scopeby Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011The enlargement of the EU in 2004 has had numerous effects- and the German labor market has not been left untouched. Among migrant laborers coming to Germany, self-employment has been the most frequent form of labor market participation to date. ...
02.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"Germans Are Less Worried About Immigration." Six Questions to Ingrid Tucci in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011
02.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Who Can Become German? Xenophobia and Attitudes Towards Naturalization by Claudia Diehl, Ingrid Tucci in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011Germans are opening up to the topic of immigration: According to the representative data of this report, less and less Germans without a migration background feel threatened by immigration. Also, their attitude towards naturalization has changed. The question "What ...
02.09.2011
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Report
The call for proposals in Security research and Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Research in the 7th Framework Programme has been published. The Department of Development and Security is seeking cooperation with potential project partners to form a consortium and to contribute with the research into the economics of poverty, war, reconstruction (in particular in Central Asia and Africa), terrorism, ...
12.08.2011
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Report
The project Economic Transformation, Household Behavior and Well-Being in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan started in 2010 and aims to collect panel survey data in Kyrgyzstan, to investigate well-being and household behaviour in this country, and to improve research capacity within the Central Asian region. Currently, members of the project team are in Kyrgyzstan to prepare the second wave of the ...
12.08.2011
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Report
The project PiraT (Piracy and Maritime Terrorism as a Challenge for Maritime Trade Security: Indicators, Perceptions and Options for Action) was declared BMBF project of the month June. PiraT aims to provide a forum in which representatives of politics, business and academia can exchange views and share knowledge on maritime trade security. These exchanges will serve as case studies for examining and ...
12.08.2011
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Report
Together with the Open Knowledge Foundation, Guo Xu won the third prize at the Worldbank competition "Apps for Development". Their interactive app allows you to sum up human development according to your own criteria and, through a short quiz, choose how important different dimensions of development are to you. You can then participate in constructing a multiple-dimension index of human development. ...
12.08.2011
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Interview
Anja Shortland und Olaf de Groot in the Economist ("Brigands seeking harbours: Why pirates like a little law and order")Tilman Brück in the Handelsblatt ("Warum Al Kaida ein florierendes Terror-Unternehmen bleibt")
12.08.2011
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Report
In August, Daniel Schnitzlein has begun a post-doc position at the SOEP, after completing his doctoral degree in Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg at the Chair of Regina Riphahn. At SOEP, he will work on generating user-friendly variables and analyzing dimensions of intergenerational mobility and inequality.
10.08.2011
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Economic Bulletin
German R&D-intensive Industries : Value Added and Productivity Have Recovered Considerably After the Crisis by Heike Belitz, Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011No large industrialized nation is as strongly specialized in the production of R&D-intensive goods as Germany. In the crisis year 2009 these export-oriented industries had to pass a crucial test. The slump ...
05.08.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"Leading position maintained". Six Questions for Alexander Schiersch in in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011
05.08.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Japan at the Crossroads - State Budget Remains the Achilles' Heelby Georg Erber, Mechthild Schrooten in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011The natural and nuclear disaster on the 11th of March 2011 pulled Japan into a renewed recession. Projected on the annual basis, the gross domestic product nosedived by 3.5% in the first quarter of 2011. Indeed the consequences of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent ...
05.08.2011
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Economic Bulletin
After the Crisis: German R&D-intensive Industries in a Good Position by Heike Belitz, Marius Clemens, Martin Gornig, Florian Mölders, Alexander Schiersch, Dieter Schumacher in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011The strong reliance of the German economy on the industry sector has been a point of criticism for years now. Germany is too strongly focused on export, making it susceptible to crises and ...
05.08.2011