Das erneute Aufflammen der Corona-Pandemie setzt dem Wirtschaftsaufschwung in Deutschland vorerst ein Ende. Die rasant steigenden Infektionszahlen verunsichern VerbraucherInnen und Unternehmen weltweit, zudem haben viele europäische Regierungen, auch Deutschland, erneute Einschränkungen des Wirtschaftsgeschehens beschlossen, um die zweite Infektionswelle zu stoppen. Dies dürfte Berechnungen des DIW ...
This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 166 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as proposals to construct new nuclear reactors in currently about 30 countries, this question is both of historic ...
Incentives for industrial loads to provide demand response on day-ahead and reserve markets are affected both by network tariffs, as well as regulations on the provision of flexibility in different markets. This paper uses a numerical model of the chlor-alkali process with a storable intermediate good to investigate how these factors affect the provision of demand response in these markets. We also ...
Deutschland ist bisher gut durch die Corona-Krise gekommen? Das stimmt nur bedingt. Und es ist auch keineswegs selbstverständlich, dass es so bleibt. Hier ist eine Frage an Sie als Leserin oder Leser, ganz hypothetisch: Welches Land würden Sie wählen, wenn Sie sie mit dem heutigen Wissen nochmals in den März 2020 zurückgehen und ganz frei entscheiden könnten, wo Sie ...
Identification through heteroskedasticity in heteroskedastic simultaneous equations models (HSEMs) is considered. The possibility that heteroskedasticity identifies structural parameters only partially is explicitly allowed for. The asymptotic properties of the identified parameters are derived. Moreover, tests for identification through heteroskedasticity are developed and their asymptotic distributions ...
We here assess the impact of DSL internet access on a set of labour market outcomes of working-age individuals in Germany between 2008 and 2012. Assuming internet access improves the quality of employer-employee matching by reducing search costs, we focus on indicators of job quality: the working hours mismatch, job satisfaction, and the probability of changing job. We draw...
From October 28 - 30, 2020, Prof. Ruben DURANTE (University Pompeu Fabra) will give a 3-day Masterclass.Basic knowledge in Python is needed to attend the courseFor further questions please contact Tomaso Duso (tduso@diw.de).If you are interested in attending the Masterclasses please send an email to Juliane Metzner (jmetzner@diw.de) for registration.
