Der Bundesminister für Wirtschaft hat mit Schreiben vom 22. Mai 1992 dem Deutschen Institut ßr Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, dem Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, und dem Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle einen Forschungsauftrag mit dem Titel "Die wirtschaftliche Situation Rußlands...

Der Bericht ist in zwei Teile gegliedert. Im ersten Teil wird der aktuelle Stand der Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der Reformpolitik dargestellt. Seit der Fertigstellung des ersten Berichts müssen hier eine Beschleunigung der Inflation in Richtung Hyperinflation und ein verstärkter Rückgang der...

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter - locally referred to as dzud - of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity...

Despite the ongoing appetite of financial investors for merchant investments into the European electricity network, the EC is reluctant to approve such undertakings, thus implicitly favoring regulated investments. Based on a two-level model, we analyze the impact of profit-maximizing merchant...

This paper presents a revised version of the DIW Economic Barometer, the business cycle index of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). As in earlier versions, we put forward a factor model on a monthly frequency to filter the latent state of the aggregate economy. In the new...

Deviations of policy interest rates from the levels implied by the Taylor rule have been persistent before the financial crisis and increased especially after the turn of the century. Compared to the Taylor benchmark, policy rates were often too low. This paper provides evidence that both...