Der DIW-Kuratoriumsvorsitzende Axel Weber scheidet, wie bereits bei seiner Wiederwahl im November 2019 angekündigt, in diesem Jahr aus dem Gremium aus. „Ich sehe das DIW Berlin auf einem ausgezeichneten Weg“, sagte Weber. „Das Institut hat sich in den letzten Jahren hervorragend entwickelt und eine sehr gute Evaluierung erhalten. Es ist damit gut gewappnet für die Zukunft. ...
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We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among representative sample of 1,687 early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student characteristics. Our results show that economic competence is significantly lower among female students, migrants, ...
Industrial demand response can play an important part in balancing the intermittent production from a growing share of renewable energies in electricity markets. This paper analyses the role of aggregators – intermediaries between participants and power markets – in facilitating industrial demand response. Based on the results from semi-structured interviews with German demand response aggregators, ...
An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level while firm level revenues are a poor indicator of product sales. We use a novel database that identifies over ...
