Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 to achieve national climate targets. Nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by private household consumption. Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report calculates the amount of CO2 equivalents emitted by households due to residential energy use, nutrition, and transport in Germany. ...
This paper first shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the European Central Bank (ECB) can influence global energy prices. Second, through Lucas critique-robust counterfactual analysis, we uncover that the ECB’s ability to affect fast-moving energy prices plays an important role in the transmission of monetary policy. Third, we empirically document that, to optimally fulfill its primary mandate, ...
Die Bundesregierung plant schärfere Sanktionen für Bürgergeld-Beziehende und will damit rund 170 Millionen Euro pro Jahr einsparen. Damit kommt sie einerseits den Bürgergeld-Kritikern entgegen und trägt andererseits zu den geforderten Haushaltseinsparungen bei. Dieser Gastbeitrag von Jürgen Schupp erschien am 19. Januar 2024 bei Focus Online. Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe, könnte man meinen, wenn die ...
Migranten sind laut einer Studie ein Minusgeschäft für den Staat. Das ist absurdes, menschenfeindliches Nullsummendenken. Migrantinnen und Migranten seien eine untragbare finanzielle Belastung für Deutschland, ist das Ergebnis einer neuen Studie der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft. Die Studie (PDF) dürfte die Rechtsextremen und den Populismus weiter befeuern, zumal die Stiftung Marktwirtschaft den Autor der ...
We investigate policies for increasing recycling to facilitate decarbonization within the basic material sector, including market-based policies, such as carbon pricing, advanced disposal fee and minimum recycled content requirement, and non-market policies, such as product design standard. We develop an analytical model to assess the role of these policy instruments for recycling related choices of ...
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension insurance and find that, on average, ...
