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Personnel news
Thore Schlaak, who works at the Forecasting and Economic Policy Department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Essays on Structural Vector Autoregressions Identified Through Time-Varying Volatility" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Lars Winkelmann (FU Berlin).
We congratulate Thore ...
27.11.2019
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We would like to ask you to complete a short questionnaire. By doing so, you will help us continue improving the SOEP data and our services to the international SOEP user community.If you did not receive a personal invitation, please register here(This link will be active only up to December 23, 2019).The entire survey will take only 10 minutes to complete. We hope to have achieved an appropriate balance ...
21.11.2019
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Personnel news
Dawud Ansari, who works at the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Numerical models for emerging energy and resource issues: Examples from tight oil, global energy, and rural electrification" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Eisenack (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ...
11.11.2019
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Personnel news
Dr. Annika Schnücker, who graduated in 2018, is receiving this year's Ernst-Reuter-Preis for Outstanding Young Scientists at Freie Universität, Berlin.She is being honored for her dissertation "Model Selection Methods for Panel Vector Autoregressive Models," which is selected as one of the 5 most outstanding dissertations of 2018 at Freie Universität, Berlin.Georg Weizsäcker, Dean ...
05.11.2019
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The science is clear: global warming must be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid catastrophic impacts. The Paris Agreement recognises the 1.5C-limit as well. The production of basic materials –cement, iron and steel, paper, aluminium, as well as chemicals and petrochemicals – is one of the main contributors to climate change, accounting for approximately 25% of global CO2 emissions, ...
30.10.2019| Olga Chiappinelli
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The SOEP Brown Bag is a lunch-time seminar at the SOEP in Berlin taking place every second week throughout the semesterin in which researches can present their work using SOEP data and other longitudinal household panels. Not only is it a good format to get into contact with SOEP staff but also to receive valuable feedback from those being involved in data generation and analysis with the same sources.
We ...
25.10.2019| Daniel Graeber, Lea-Maria Löbel
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Statement
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today's announcements by the ECB as follows:
24.10.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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SOEP users are invited to submit proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). For those not yet familiar with SOEP-IS, this unique innovation sample offers great potential as a source of household micro-data, particularly for researchers seeking information that is not available in SOEP-Core—for example, specific information on households or on people’s opinions. ...
14.10.2019
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The new issue of the Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 4/2018 (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research) on European banking landscape between diversity, competition and concentration is now available.
Causes and consequences of institutional diversity are a largely neglected issue in economics. Only in finance, institutional variety has been at times acknowledged, though not in its ‘institution-free’ ...
09.10.2019| Dorothea Schäfer
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On October 1st, we welcomed the new Ph.D. students of the Berlin School of Economics with a welcome event.
After a short introduction at the Humboldt-University in the morning and a preparatory math course in the afternoon, the group gathered at DIW Berlin for a welcome ceremony. At a welcome reception the new students had the chance to connect with each other and the whole team.
A warm ...
04.10.2019| Juliane Metzner
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Press Release
Press release of the project group "Gemeinschaftsdiagnose": German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association, ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich in cooperation with the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), RWI – Leibniz ...
02.10.2019
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How do refugees differ from other population groups with respect to health? And how are health inequalities between refugees and others related to living conditions and the health care system? These research questions will guide the project “Refugee Migration to Germany: A Magnifying Glass for Broader Public Health Challenges” (PH-LENS), which started work on October 1, 2019, for an initial ...
24.09.2019| Monika Wimmer
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Statement
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today's announcements by the ECB as follows:
12.09.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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Personnel news
Vera Zipperer, who works at the Climate Policy department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Creating innovation incentives through environmental policies: An economic analysis" was supervised by Prof. Karsten Neuhoff, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Simone Borghesi, Ph.D. ...
12.09.2019
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At the start of Summer Semester 2019, Marco Giesselmann took up his new position in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Zurich. At the SOEP, Marco was responsible for organizing SOEPcampus events. Sandra Bohmann has now taken on full responsibility for this task, which she has been carrying out as Marco’s replacement for some time. Marco is now also Senior Research Fellow at the SOEP.
Christian ...
15.08.2019
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The 2017 wave of the SOEP survey was the fourth to include a module on individual private wealth. The data from this module have been processed to deal with item non-response and to provide user-friendly harmonized variables in the widely used PWEALTH and HWEALTH files, which now include private wealth data from 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017.
The 2017 SOEP wealth module covered two new components of ...
14.08.2019
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The relaunch of our SOEP Research Data Center website will be delayed further.
The good news is: We have launched our new SOEP start page on the DIW Berlin website.It features a fresh design that’s easy to read design on all devices and new content, including Getting Started , a toolbox of services for new data users.
The new start page highlights the SOEP team’s research and policy advice ...
14.08.2019
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On thursday September 19, 2019, the Berlin School of Economics will have its official opening ceremony at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin!
For this special occasion, we are glad to welcome Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole, who will be holding the keynote address.
This event signifies the official start of a joint Berlin-wide career development program and celebrates all those who have made ...
13.08.2019| Andrea Bawamia
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It is Professor Leonardo Becchetti from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
The anonymized SOEP data are only provided for scientific research after a contract has been signed between the data user and DIW Berlin. Becchetti's topic: Heterogeneity in Beliefs Comparing West and East Germany.
We wish him success in his research!
06.08.2019
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
As the nominee to succeed European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in November, Christine Lagarde may be hoping that her job will be somewhat easier than that of her predecessor. Yet the opposite is likely to be true. Though Draghi was tasked with guiding the ECB through years of crises, Lagarde will have to pursue eurozone reforms at a time of deepening polarization among member-state governments. ...
05.08.2019| Marcel Fratzscher