Events

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18 to 22 June 2012

Conference Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics 2012

We are pleased to announce that the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics: Annual conference of the ITEA will be held in Berlin, Germany June 18-22, 2012.

The three-day Summer School is held on June 18-20, just before the Conference. It provides a condensed programme giving an introduction to academic research in transport economics including recent advances. The Summer School program consists of 10 lectures delivered by a faculty comprising a range of the most prominent researchers in transport economics.

The aim of the Conference, June 21 - 22, is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transport economics and to provide a forum for stimulating scientific exchange. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport investment and funding, congestion pricing, time and risk, agglomeration effects, valuation of intangibles, aviation, competition, privatization etc. There will be awards with cash prizes for outstanding papers. The Conference and the Summer School are organised by DIW Berlin and Technical University of Berlin. The venue for the Summer School is DIW Berlin, the Conference will take place at Quadriga Forum, just a 5 minutes walk from DIW's premises.

For general information and abstract submission please visit
Kuhmo Nectar 2012 Conference Site.

 

Please note that being registered for abstract submission does not mean that you are automatically registered for attending the conference.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: .

With kind regards,

the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics

Heike Link, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
Stef Proost , Chair of Scientific Committee
Jan Brueckner, Chair of the Summer School Steering Committee
Kenneth Small, President of International Transportation Economics Association

02 March 2010

DIW Berlin Seminar The Carbon Content of Austrian Trade Flows in the European and International Trade Context

Abstract
In this study CO2 emissions embodied in Austrian international trade are quantified employing a 66-region input output model of multidirectional trade. We find that Austria's final demand CO2 responsibilities on a global scale are 38% higher than conventional statistics report (110 Mt-CO2 versus 79 Mt-CO2 in 2004). For each unit of Austrian final demand, currently two thirds of the thus triggered CO2 emissions occur outside Austrian borders. We then develop a 19-region computable general equilibrium model of Austria and its major trading partners and world regions to find that future Austrian climate policy can achieve the EU 20-20 emission reduction targets, but that its carbon trade balance would worsen considerably. Both unilateral EU and internationally coordinated climate policies affect Austrian international trade stronger than its domestic production.

Based on
Bednar-Friedl, B., P. Muñoz Jaramillo, T. Schinko, K. Steininger (2009), The Carbon Content of Austrian Trade Flows in the European and International Trade Context, FIW Research Reports 2009/2010 N° 05 / Trade, Energy and Environment.

http://www.fiw.ac.at/index.php?id=479#c8868

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Karl W. Steininger
    Department of Economics & Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria

Time
11:00-12:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 329
12 January 2010

Invited Lecture Stochastic Dynamic Modeling in Energy

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Steven A. Gabriel
Time
16:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Arthur-Cecil-Pigou-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
02 Dec 2009

DIW Berlin Seminar The century ahead - four global scenarios

Rich Rosen, Tellus Institute, Boston

Over the last decade, concern as to the sustainability of nature and society has greatly increased, and with good reason.  Environmental scientists say with ever greater urgency that action must be taken immediately to begin to mitigate climate change if unacceptable levels of warming are to be avoided.  Additional strong action must be taken to ease the severity of other crises such as energy, water and food shortages.  Similarly, development experts reviewing the full range of human, economic, and institutional crises as they unfold see the need for immediate action on many other fronts to mitigate poverty and oppression, to strengthen social justice, and to enhance human well-being.
 
Dealing with these crucial environmental and development issues begins, then, to address the even broader issue that has been hotly debated for many years, namely can the world achieve a state of “sustainable development” within the next century, or so.  But how can "sustainable development" be  defined and quantified?  How do we know what pathway to sustainable development to take?  Using its Polestar scenario development software, the Tellus Institute has developed four scenarios through the year 2100, one of which, the Great Transition scenario, starts to illustrate quantitatively what sustainable development might look like while the world meets approximately a 350 ppm CO2 target for the atmosphere.  The other three scenarios are entitled:  Market Forces, Policy Reform, and Fortress World.  This work takes off from the work of the Global Scenario Group of ten years ago.

Keynote Speaker
  • Rich Rosen
Time
13:00-14:00
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 329
09 to 10 October 2009

Conference INFRADAY-Konferenz: Innovation in Network Industries - Markets and Regulation, Pull and Push

The Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) at Berlin University of Technology, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Institute for Economic Policy Research (IWW) at University Karlsruhe, and the Chair for Energy Economics & Public Sector Management (EE2) at Dresden University of Technology hold the 8th Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research on 9-10 October, 2009. It is a forum of debate among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. This year's topic is "Innovation in Network Industries - Markets and Regulation, Pull and Push". The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, and water.

Among the highlights of the conference are the keynote speeches by Dr. Hermann Scheer (Member of the German Parliament, EUROSOLAR, WCRE), Prof. Dr. Juan Rosellon (CIDE, Mexico), Dr. Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin), and Prof. Dr. Anming Zhang (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). The first day of the conference is dedicated to the elections in Germany and their implications for infrastructure policy, and to the issues electromobility and renewable energies. During the second day, cross-sectoral topics such as regulation and innovation as well as sector-specific analyses are discussed in a number of presentations.

The conference takes place at TU Berlin. Please register online until Tuesday, October 6, 2009. More informationen about registration, conference program and location can be found on the website. The registration fee is 200 Euro; a reduced fee of 100 Euro applies to participants from public institutions.

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25 February 2009

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Carbon Taxes: Good for the Planet, not bad for Economy

In a recent study supported by the Anglo-German Foundation, researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) show that carbon taxes can reduce pollution without harming the economy.
 
Siegfried Gelbhaar ist Privatdozent an der Universität Trier und Referent für Umweltpolitik der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen neben der Umweltökonomik, die Finanzwissenschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik sowie die Institutionenökonomik der öffentlichen Finanzen.

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin
  • Dr. Ralf Martin
    Dr. Siegfried Gelbhaar
Time
12 - 2 PM
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
13 to 15 Dec 2007

Event 2nd CESSA conference on natural gas and nuclear power
European energy supply security in a carbon constrained world

The 2nd CESSA conference on natural gas and nuclear power will be hosted by the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge University.

CESSA is a European forum that studies the “economics and policy interfaces for gas and nuclear in the context of energy security of supply and a future hydrogen economy”. It brings together researchers and energy stakeholders of the natural gas, nuclear and hydrogen industries. It aims at developing recommendations for the European level through consensus between academics and stakeholders.

DIW Berlin hosted the 1st CESSA conference "Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, and Security of Supply", jointly with the Chair of Energy Economics at Dresden University of Technology and Technische Universität Berlin.

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03 Dec 2007

DIW Berlin Seminar An assessment of the economic cost of hurricane Katrina and consequences for climate change

Keynote Speaker
  • Stéphane Hallegatte, Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement and Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Météo-France
Time
10.00 Uhr
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
31 January 2007

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Die energiepolitische Agenda der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft
Chancen zur Gestaltung der Zukunftsfähigkeit Europas nutzen

Comment: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
Moderator: Dr. Regina Vogel, Deputy Director (Anglo-German Foundation)

Keynote Speaker
  • Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer, MdB
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
17 to 18 Nov 2006

Conference 2006 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Ressource Policies: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity

The sustainable use of natural resources has been a challenge for environmental policies from their very beginning. Without an appropriate institutional setting, scarce resources such as water, materials, energy sources, land, etc. are overused, following the infamous logic of the tragedy of the commons. Related to this are issues of effective resource policies, efficient resource consumption, and equity on a global scale. The Berlin Conference Steering Committee and the Environmental Policy and Global Change section of the German Political Science Association and its partners invite papers for the 2006 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, to be held in Berlin on 17-18 November 2006.

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24 May 2006

Berlin Lunchtime Meeting Energiepreisrisiken und Auswirkungen auf die Europäische Energiepolitik

Comment: Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune

Keynote Speaker
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, DIW Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin