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On October 7th, 2025, the Future Power Markets Platform (Karsten Neuhoff) and Future Power Markets Forum (Benjamin Hobbs) jointly organized a webinar, to get first-hand insights on how locational price risks are hedged in North American electricity markets. The first part of the webinar – input presentations from each of the experts – is included in this recording.
Rund 1,4 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland erhalten Grundrente – Mehr als 75 Prozent davon sind Frauen – Grundrentenberechtigte bleiben überdurchschnittlich häufig im Arbeitsmarkt aktiv – Aktivrente könnte positiv auf Erwerbsumfang dieser Gruppe wirken Rund 1,4 Millionen Menschen oder gut fünf Prozent aller Rentner*innen erhalten Grundrente. Von diesem Zuschlag, der Rentner*innen mit langen Erwerbsverläufen ...
Machine learning is increasingly used in social science research, especially for prediction. However, the results are sometimes not as straight-forward to interpret compared to classic regression models. In this paper, we address this trade-off by comparing the predictive performance of random forests and logit regressions to analyze labor market vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a ...
Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 - in Germany by about 25 %. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...
The ongoing expansion of wind and solar electricity generation alongside increasing electrification is leading to a considerable strain on transmission capacities and grid bottlenecks in the EU. Coping with this challenge requires increasing system flexibility, e.g. by exploiting the potential for demand-side flexibility. However, in the current market design, demand-side flexibility responds to zonal ...
Numerous studies in recent decades have shown a significant association bet-ween familiar socioeconomic status (SES) and child development. Less is known about the cumulative effects of socioeconomic risk factors, which may have a greater impact on child outcomes than single factors, especially in the first years of life. The study utilized latent mixture models to investigate the effects of socioeconomic ...
Als DIW-Forscherin Dorothea Schäfer im Sommer 2007 auf dem Weg zur Arbeit in der Berliner U-Bahn saß, konnte sie ihren Augen kaum glauben. Zwischen Wettervorhersagen und Promi-News verkündeten die Nachrichtenbildschirme des Berliner Fensters: Deutsche Industriebank IKB steht vor der Insolvenz. Schäfer war zwischen 2002 und 2023 am DIW Berlin, wo sie unter anderem die Forschungsgruppe Finanzmärkte ...
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