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Taking the Ups and Downs at the Rollercoaster of Love: Associations between Major Relationship Events and the Big Five Personality Traits

Personality predicts how we interact with others, what partners we have, and how happy and lasting our romantic relationships are. At the same time, our experiences in these relationships may affect our personality. Who experiences specific major relationship events and how do these events relate to personality development? We examined this issue based on data from a nationally representative household ...

The Variability of Occupational Attainment: How Prestige Trajectories Diversified within Birth Cohorts over the Twentieth Century

This study develops and applies a framework for analyzing variability in individuals’ occupational prestige trajectories and changes in average variability between birth cohorts. It extends previous literature focused on typical patterns of intragenerational mobility over the life course to more fully examine intracohort differentiation. Analyses are based on rich life course data for men and women ...

Gerechtigkeit und Gesundheit

Gerechtigkeit beschäftigt die Menschheit seit sehr langer Zeit. Erste Abhandlungen dazu finden sich bereits in der Zeit der frühen Hochkulturen des 2. Jahrtausends vor der christlichen Zeitrechnung. Darin wird sie als eine menschliche Tugend beschrieben, die darin begründet ist, dass sich Menschen gegenseitig etwas schulden und den Mächtigen nicht alles erlaubt sei. So lässt etwa Platon Sokrates sagen: ...

The Effectiveness of FX Interventions: A Meta-Analysis

There is ample empirical literature centering on the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention (FXI). Given the mix of objectives and country-heterogeneity, the general lack of consensus thus far is no surprise. We shed light on this debate by conducting the first comprehensive meta-analysis in the FXI literature, with 279 reported effects that stem from 74 distinct empirical studies. We cover ...

The Impact of Transmission Development on a 100% Renewable Electricity Supply: A Spatial Case Study on the German Power System

In this paper, we analyze the interdependence between the structure of transmission infrastructure and the electricity mix, applied to the case of Germany today and into the future. In particular, we are interested in how an energy system based on a high share of distributed renewable sources operates under different transmission regimes, for example, copper plate or more constrained network topologies. ...

An Introduction to Transmission Network Investment in the New Market Regime

Transmission network investment has emerged as a pivotal problem for the electricity industry, as it adapts to the change from traditional to renewable generation, from large scale to distributed generation and from vertically integrated monopolies to vertically separated production stages in various states of competition. Because transmission coordinates the generation, distribution and sales activities ...

A Green COVID-19 Recovery of the EU Basic Materials Sector: Identifying Potentials, Barriers and Policy Solutions

This paper explores which climate-friendly projects could be part of the COVID-19 recovery while jump-starting the transition of the European basic materials industry. Findings from a literature review on technology options in advanced development stages for climate-friendly production and enhanced sorting and recycling of steel, cement, aluminium and plastics are combined with insights from interviews ...

Financial Literacy and Intertemporal Arbitrage

We study the role of financial literacy for inter-temporal decision-making using an adapted version of the Convex Time Budget Protocol (Andreoni and Sprenger 2012). While we find no evidence of dynamically inconsistent preferences in the aggregate, we document substantial heterogeneity in choice-patterns and estimated parameters at the individual-level: We find that subjects with higher levels of financial ...

Nach US-Wahl: Jetzt muss Europa ein Freihandelsabkommen mit den USA aushandeln

Dass Trump mit einigen Vorwürfen recht hatte, können die Europäer gegenüber Joe Biden als US-Präsident nicht mehr leugnen. Nun sollten sie ein transatlantisches Freihandelsabkommen vorantreiben – auch um Chinas Macht zu begrenzen. Die Fehler von TTIP müssen dabei korrigiert werden. Dieser Beitrag ist am 8. November 2020 bei WELT online erschienen. Die Wahl von ...

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