Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Food Intake and the Role of Food Self-Provisioning

Matching Candidate Nomination, Ethnic Voting, and Ethnic Representation

Descriptive Representation of Constituency Interests: The Role of Institutional Variables and District Composition

The Dynamics of Bargaining in Partnerships

Welfare Stigma in the Lab

Paid Parental Leave and Child Development: Evidence from the 2007 German Benefit Reform and Administrative Data

The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Manufacturing in East Germany since Unification: Restructuring and Actual Role in Unified Germany

A Price Concentration Study On European Mobile Telecom Markets

Interconnection and Prioritization

Finding the Right Yardstick: Regulation under Heterogeneous Environments

Market Power and Asymmetric Pass-through in German Electricity Retail

Does the EU ETS Cause Carbon Leakage in European Manufacturing? A Sector-Level Analysis

Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies

Productivity Growth and the Public and Private Ownership of Regulated Firms

Political Corruption in the Execution of Public Contracts: A Principal-Agent Analysis

Labor Supply of Mothers: The Role of Time Discounting

Calculating Joint Confidence Bands for Impulse Response Functions Using Highest Density Regions

This paper proposes a new non-parametric method of constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions of vector autoregressive models. The estimation uncertainty is captured by means of bootstrapping and the highest density region (HDR) approach is used to construct the bands. A Monte Carlo comparison of the HDR bands with existing alternatives shows that the former are competitive...

Binary Choice Belief Elicitation: An Adaptively Optimal Design

Work Incentives in Europe