This paper aims to quantify the relation between real GDP, CO2 emissions, renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption, tourism development and labor force for France and Germany as these two countries are pioneer countries pushing Paris agreement within and outside the European Union. The time spans have been used for the period of 1995–2015 according to data availability. In the presence of cross-sectional ...
We provide a description of ownership patterns in the top 25 European banks for the period 2003–2015, where we especially focus on the global financial crisis. Investment managers, such as Blackrock, are dominant in terms of number of blockholdings in different banks, maintaining fairly stable “common ownership” networks throughout our sample. However, the financial crisis led to capital injections ...
We study a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in pre-merger competitive conditions and thus in the merger outcomes. To define our control group, we account for selection on observables through a matching procedure. We observe that, after the merger, ...
Die Herausforderungen der UN-Klimakonferenz in Glasgow kommentiert Claudia Kemfert, Energieökonomin und Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander Kritikos erschien am 31.10.2021 in der TAZ. Auf große Liebe stieß Merkel in Athen nicht. Ihre Sparpakete verschärften Not und Arbeitslosigkeit. Dennoch hätte es ohne sie schlimmer kommen können. Dass Angela Merkel auf ihrer Abschiedstournee durch Europa auf einer der letzten Stationen Griechenland besucht hat, ist kein Zufall. In ...
