Incentives for industrial loads to provide demand response on day-ahead and reserve markets are affected both by network tariffs, as well as regulations on the provision of flexibility in different markets. This paper uses a numerical model of the chlor-alkali process with a storable intermediate good to investigate how these factors affect the provision of demand response in these markets. We also ...
Der Anteil von Frauen in den Vorständen der großen Unternehmen steigt – aber zu langsam. Gut, dass die Familienministerin jetzt eine gesetzliche Quote vorschlägt. Immer rund um den Weltfrauentag am 8. März überschlagen sich Medien, Politik und Wirtschaft mit Betrachtungen über die Gleichstellung von Frauen. Tatsächlich lässt sich konstatieren: Wir machen ...
This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on this relationship essentially estimate mean effects, we use quantile regression methods to provide a broader and more complete picture. To ac-count for the potential endogeneity of job loss, we estimate quantile treatment effects (on the treated) based on entropy balancing and focus ...
Die EZB hat heute angekündigt, angesichts der Corona-Ausbreitung ihr Kreditprogramm aufzustocken und zusätzliche Anleihenkäufe zu tätigen. Die Maßnahmen kommentiert DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher wie folgt:
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today's announcements by the ECB as follows:
In 2018, participants in the Socio-Economic Panel were asked for the third time whether and how much money they had donated in the past year to social, church, cultural, charitable and non-profit causes. This paper examines the results of this survey and compares them with the previous findings for the years 2009 and 2014. According to SOEP data, almost one in two private individuals in Germany continued ...
This paper uses data from the Migrant Samples of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the fertility behaviour of women who migrated to Germany between 1990 and 2015. Special emphasis is placed on the large groups of migrants who have moved to Germany from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries since the 1990s. We find that CEE migrants had higher first birth, but much lower second birth rates ...
