The @financialtimes cites the work of David Barkhausen (@Barkhausen_D) and Sebastian Teupe, which was published as "The German Inflation Trauma: Weimar’s Policy Lessons Between Persistence and Reconstruction" in our journal:

New paper: Daniel F. Heuermann and Andreas Krämer on "Perceived Inflation in Germany: Determinants and the Role of the Basket of Goods". They measure the perceived inflation rate in 2022/23 and examine differences among various population groups.

New paper in our Data Observer section: Elisa Rodepeter, Hanna Hottenrott and Sandra Gottschalk present the IAB/@ZEW Start-Up Panel.

New paper: Michael Fritsch et al. on "Industrial Monuments in Germany: Data Basis and Overview of Regional Structures". They describe the procedure for compiling a list of industrial monuments in the regions of Germany and the resulting data set.

New paper: Carsten Burhop and Sergey Gelman on "Do Firms Issue More Equity When Markets Become More Liquid? The Case of Imperial Germany, 1898–1913".

New paper: Mattis Beckmannshagen et al. on "Dealing with censored earnings in register data". They address the fact that earnings in administrative register data are often right-censored leaving the right tail of the earnings distribution obscure.

Friedrich Heinemann discusses this paper:

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New paper: José Pedro Bastos Neves and Willi Semmler on "A Carbon Wealth Tax: Modelling, Empirics, and Policy". The authors propose a new type of tax to help finance (and accelerate) the green transition.

New paper: Joachim Wagner presents "A Note on Estimation of Empirical Models for Margins of Exports with Unknown Non-linear Functional Forms: A Kernel-Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) Approach".

New paper: Bernhard Boockmann, Natalie Herdegen and Martin Kroczek on "Pension Reform Effects in Times of Technological Change and Shifting Task Composition". They study heterogeneity in the effects of a pension reform in Germany.

The Best Paper Award 2024 goes to. “Robot Adoption at German Plants”. by Liuchun Deng (Yale-NUS College, Singapore), Verena Plümpe (IWH Halle), and Jens Stegmaier (IAB Nuremberg). Congratulations 🎉.

New paper: Imke Herold presents the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) on data from the German Pension Insurance. It offers exact data from the pension accounts of the respondents as well as contextual and household information.

New paper: New paper: Lidwina Gundacke et al. on "Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration – TRANSMIT Surveys of Syrian Nationals and Their Neighbors in Lebanon and Turkey (2019–2023)"

New paper: D. Schaller, J. Hennrich and K. Wohlrabe @KlausWohlrabe introduce the ifo Human Resources Survey, which tracks German firms' HR practices & labor dynamics since 2008. Quarterly data from ~700 firms (Manufacturing 38%, Services 40%, Trade 22%)

Call for papers for a special issue on "Fiscal Rules and Institutions". Our guest editors are Thiess Büttner @Thiess_Buettner (FAU Erlangen Nürnberg) and Friedrich Heinemann @Heinemann_F (ZEW and U of Heidelberg); deadline for full paper: 31.10.2025.

New paper: Philipp Breidenbach, Lukas Hoernig and Thorben Wiebe introduce a repeated-sales algorithm tailored for the German real estate market, addressing the lack of such data;"Data on Repeated Offerings in the German Housing Market Based on RWI-GEO-RED".

New paper: "Public Use and Distribution of Retail CBDC: An Evidence from Thailand’s Retail CBDC Pilot Program" from Nuntapun Bhensook, Thanaporn Rattanakul, Witit Synsatayakul and Pakaporn Tohwisessuk #CBDC.

New call for papers for a special issue an "New Statistical Methods in the Context of Energy Transition", edited by Roland Fried, Jethro Browell, Deniz Sezer and Uwe Ziel. The deadline for full paper is 15.11.2025.

New paper: "Payment Habits during Covid-19: Evidence from High-Frequency Transaction Data". Tatjana Dahlhaus and Angelika Welte assess the impact of high-frequency fluctuations in the severity of the pandemic on payment behaviour.