Das Statistische Bundesamt hat heute bekannt gegeben, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft im Jahr 2024 um 0,2 Prozent geschrumpft ist. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Jan-Christopher Scherer, Konjunkturexperte im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
Significant amounts of electricity consumed in air and water pumping make wastewater treatment energy-intensive. This study investigates the potential power system benefits of load shifting within these pumping processes. As a case study, the Irish power system and wastewater sector are studied by using an integrated modelling approach. The results show that demand flexibility within the wastewater ...
Ökonom Marcel Fratzscher zeigt sich schockiert über unlautere Wahlversprechen. Milliardenschwere Steuerentlastungen hält er für unrealistisch. Was ihm in der aktuellen Lage trotzdem Hoffnung macht. Herr Fratzscher, die schlechten Nachrichten aus der Wirtschaft reißen nicht ab. VW steckt in der Krise, die Insolvenzen steigen bedenklich, der Ausblick ist trüb. Gibt es etwas, das Ihnen als Ökonom Hoffnung ...
This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students’ applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming male students shifted their First-Ranked ...
Common ownership - where several firms are (partially) owned by the same investors - and its impact on product market competition has recently drawn much attention. This paper focuses on its implications for market entry. We consider the entry decisions of generic pharmaceutical firms into drug markets that are opened up by the end of regulatory protection and which were previously dominated by a single ...
Der Schweinezyklus beschreibt das Problem der Zeitverzögerung bei der Anpassung des Angebots auf einem Markt. Der Begriff geht auf den früheren DIW-Ökonomen Arthur Hanau (1902-1985) und dessen Dissertation „Die Prognose der Schweinepreise“ zurück, die er im Jahr 1928 im Vierteljahrsheft zur Konjunkturforschung veröffentlichte – damals hieß das DIW Berlin noch Institut für Konjunkturforschung.
This study analyses travellers’ behavioural responses to two temporal measures implemented by the German government: the reduction in public transport prices, making it almost fare-free, and a decrease in fuel taxes to the minimum level permitted by European law. Based on a panel dataset of GPS-tracked trips collected before and during the price intervention from a representative sample of 276 individuals, ...
Real construction volume is expected to decline for the fifth year in a row: A decline of nearly four percent is expected for 2024 and it should fall by almost one percent in 2025. However, the construction industry may manage to reverse the trend in 2026, when real construction volume is projected to grow by two percent. However, this should not obscure the fact that the declines over the past years ...
