The proportion of women on the executive and supervisory boards of Germany's largest private companies has risen considerably since data collection for the DIW Women Executives Barometer began 20 years ago. While it was just over one percent on the executive boards of Germany's 200...

Der Frauenanteil in den Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten der größten privaten Unternehmen in Deutschland ist seit Beginn der Datenerfassung für das DIW Managerinnen-Barometer vor 20 Jahren stark gestiegen. Lag er in den Vorständen der 200 umsatzstärksten Unternehmen in Deutschland im Jahr...

This paper presents a method for estimating treatment effects of local climate shocks when regions trade with each other. Because trade creates spillovers, comparing the change in outcomes of regions with different exposure to shocks leads to biased estimates. We model these between-region...

This paper analyzes the impact of the age structure of the population on the household saving rate using time-series data for Japan for the 1955-2019 period. It finds that there is a cointegrating relationship between Japan's household saving rate and her dependency ratio (the ratio of the...