This event, organized in the context of the CFM-TRACTION project, is a small-scale joint workshop with key stakeholders in industrial decarbonisation across German and Poland. We are bringing together key voices to discuss the results from our series of national workshops, to discuss and compare perspectives on the national level between the two countries.
This event, organized as part of the CFM-TRACTION project, is designed as a stakeholder dialogue to accelerate progress towards an effective policy framework to support net-zero industrial innovation. At the event we aim to: · Exchange knowledge on policy instrument design, synergies in the policy mixes, the structure of an effective policy packages and its...
This webinar brought together experts, industry representatives, and policymakers to discuss how the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) can play its part in the Fit for 55 (F55) package and unlock climate-friendly investments at EU scale. In particular, it offered a space to discuss an alternative design option for the CBAM, often referred to as the excise option (option 6 in the...
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Karsten Neuhoff ist am 15.09.2021 bei Focus Online erschienen. Der Übergang zur Klimaneutralität ist machbar, aber eine große Aufgabe. Darum ist es nicht überraschend, dass Politik und Gesellschaft noch zögern, sich der Aufgabe zu stellen. Allerdings birgt eine zögerliche Klimapolitik auch Gefahren für Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Klimaneutralität ...
Die Ökonomen Lars Feld, Direktor des Walter Eucken Instituts, und Marcel Fratzscher entwerfen in einem Gastbeitrag für "Die Zeit" die Idee einer neuen Finanzpolitik, die Investitionen trotz Schuldenbremse ermöglicht Dieser Gastbeitrag erschien am 14. Oktober 2021 in der Zeit. Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik Deutschlands hat eine entscheidende Weggabelung erreicht. Selten in den vergangenen 70 Jahren ...
Habit formation theory and the transformative voting hypothesis both imply that voting has downstream consequences for turnout and political involvement. Although several studies have applied causal research designs to study this question, the long-run evidence is extremely limited, especially for potentially transformative effects. We jointly examine the short- and long-term impact of earlier voting ...
Welfare is traditionally understood through social security decommodifying labor markets or social investment policies. In the domain of housing, however, welfare for homeowners is largely hidden in the tax codes’ fiscal exemptions. Based on a content analysis of legislation, this paper introduces a novel yearly database of 37 countries between 1910 and 2020 to uncover the “hidden welfare state” of ...
