The European Commission commissioned an international consortium including the DIW Berlin with a background study on State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy. The results of the study are meant to support the Commission in the revision of the EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG). One key focus of the study was to assess the current rules...
Venture capital (VC) is often seen as an instrumental tool that allows many start-ups to pursue innovation with the potential to shake-up current markets and/or to replace incumbents. Using a highly granular, project-level dataset from preclinical diabetes R&D, this paper shows that VCs actively steer the direction of R&D and streamline activities of research focused firms (pipeline firms)...
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced ...
This paper provides a review of trends in third generation nuclear power plants, and analyzes current and future nuclear power plant investments using Monte Carlo simulations of economic indicators. We first review global trends of nuclear power plant investments, including technical as well as economic trends. The review suggests that cost escalations in the sector observed in previous research continue ...
Die Bundesregierung hat heute eine Sustainable-Finance-Strategie vorgelegt. Dazu ein Statement von Karsten Neuhoff, Leiter der Abteilung Klimapolitik am DIW Berlin und Mitglied im Sustainable-Finance-Beirat der Bundesregierung sowie der Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance:
People sometimes choose to remain ignorant, even when information comes at low marginal costs and promises high utility. To investigate whether older adults enlist deliberate ignorance more than younger adults, potentially as an emotion-regulation tool, we presented a representative sample of 1,910 residents of Germany with 13 scenarios in which knowledge could result in substantial gains or losses. ...
Im zweiten Lockdown sinkt Ungleichheit der Haushaltsnettoeinkommen – Grund sind vor allem schrumpfende Einkünfte der Selbstständigen – Mittelfristig bleibt Ungleichheit aber auf stabilem Niveau, da Einkommen in der Breite steigen – Steigende Insolvenzzahlen könnten dies ändern – Anteil der von essentiellem Mangel Betroffenen hat sich zwischen 2008 und ...
