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Die USA schaffen sie ab – Deutschland sollte »Affirmative Action« einführen!

Die USA schaffen sie ab – Deutschland sollte »Affirmative Action« einführen!

Die Entscheidung des US-Supreme-Courts zum Verbot von Affirmative Action, also der Auswahl von Studierenden auf Grundlage ihrer Ethnizität, schlägt hohe Wellen. Zeit für Deutschland, Lehren aus dieser Diskussion ziehen. Dieser Gastbeitrag erschien am 1. Juli 2023 im SPIEGEL. In Bezug auf Chancengleichheit und Diversität, gerade an Hochschulen, ist Deutschland mehr als rückständig. Selbst die Rechtfertigung ...

Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue

The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic ...

Reacting to Changing Paradigms: How and Why to Reform Electricity Markets

The energy crisis and the accelerated transition to climate neutrality result in a shift from the traditional energy trilemma to an “energy quartet” across Europe. Firstly, the criteria of affordability, previously focused on short-term price developments, broadens to reliable affordability including in crises. Secondly, clean energy traditionally focused on clean production now extends to clean energy ...

The Signalling Channel of Negative Interest Rates

Negative policy rates can convince markets that deposit rates will remain lower-for-longer, even when current deposit rates are constrained by zero. This is the signalling channel of negative interest rates. We analyse the optimality and effectiveness of negative rates in the context of this novel transmission channel. In a stylized model, we prove two necessary conditions for optimality: time-consistency ...

#5 Photovoltaik: Gigawatt? Terawatt!

In dieser Folge dreht sich alles um die Photovoltaik. Wir diskutieren die Ziele der Ampel-Regierung und vergleichen sie mit globalen Trends bei PV-Installationen, Produktionskapazitäten und Technologieentwicklungen. Außerdem sprechen wir über die neue Photovoltaik-Strategie der Bundesregierung und Themen wie Balkon- und Agri-Photovoltaik. Das machen wir gemeinsam mit Carsten Pfeiffer, der zu...

Ampel-Monitor Energiewende #6: Deep Dive zur Photovoltaik

Von Felix Schmidt, Alexander Roth und Wolf-Peter Schill Für die Photovoltaik (PV) hat sich die Bundesregierung im Rahmen des Erneuerbaren-Energien-Gesetzes (EEG) ein Ausbauziel von 215 GW bis zum Jahr 2030 gesetzt (folgende Abbildung, oberer Teil). Nach dem Jahr 2030 soll die PV-Leistung weiter kontinuierlich wachsen, auf 400 GW im Jahr 2040. Beim Start der Ampel-Koalition Ende November 2021 betrug ...

Laura Schmitz has successfully defended her dissertation

Congratulations to Laura Schmitz for her dissertation defense. Her dissertation was titled 'Understanding the Impact of Education and Environmental Policy on Human Capital Formation: Four Essays in Applied Economics', Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt were her supervisors. Laura will not be leaving us, but is now starting as a PostDoc in the Energy, Transport, Environment Department.

Laura Schmitz has successfully defended her dissertation

Congratulations to Laura Schmitz for her dissertation defense. Her dissertation was titled 'Understanding the Impact of Education and Environmental Policy on Human Capital Formation: Four Essays in Applied Economics', Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt were her supervisors. Laura will not be leaving us, but is now starting as a PostDoc in the Energy, Transport, Environment Department.

Energy Transition Metals: Bottleneck for Net-Zero Emissions?

The energy transition requires substantial amounts of metals, including copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Are these metals a bottleneck? We identify metal-specific demand shocks, estimate supply elasticities, and study the price impact of the transition in a structural scenario analysis. Prices of these four metals would reach previous historical peaks but for an unprecedented, sustained period ...