A range of studies has analysed how climate-related risks can impact financial markets, focusing on equity and corporate bond holdings. This article takes a closer look at transition risks and opportunities in residential mortgages. Mortgage loans are important from a financial perspective due to their large share in banks’ assets and their long credit lifetime, and from a climate perspective due to ...
Electricity prices have seen a consistent upward trend since the implementation of Mexico’s electricity market reform (EMR). This has been interpreted by some as a failure of the EMR. In this paper we study the determinants of such price increases. We calculate the generation cost curve of the Federal Electricity Commission prior to the entry into force of the reform. We then construct daily data on ...
Der Energieverbrauch in Deutschland wird in diesem Jahr deutlich sinken. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB), an der auch das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) beteiligt ist, schätzt auf Grundlage der Berechnungen für die ersten neun Monate einen Rückgang für das Jahr 2020 um sieben Prozent. Die energiebedingten CO2-Emissionen werden damit - ...
Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1 million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk tolerance, adventurousness, and risky behaviors in the driving, drinking, smoking, and sexual domains. Across all GWAS, we identified hundreds of associated loci, including 99 loci associated with general risk tolerance. ...
Human decision-making differs due to variation in both incentives and available information. This generates substantial challenges for the evaluation of whether and how machine learning predictions can improve decision outcomes. We propose a framework that incorporates machine learning on large-scale administrative data into a choice model featuring heterogeneity in decision maker payoff functions ...
There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if the impact depends on the quality of the short-time work mechanism across affected counties. We use regression discontinuity designs to show that unemployment ...
Das erneute Aufflammen der Corona-Pandemie setzt dem Wirtschaftsaufschwung in Deutschland vorerst ein Ende. Die rasant steigenden Infektionszahlen verunsichern VerbraucherInnen und Unternehmen weltweit, zudem haben viele europäische Regierungen, auch Deutschland, erneute Einschränkungen des Wirtschaftsgeschehens beschlossen, um die zweite Infektionswelle zu stoppen. Dies dürfte...
