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Forschungsprojekt
The question of what banking sector diversity actually means and what it impliesfor the funding of small and medium sized firms (SMEs) and for banking sectorstability is still open, and this is particularly relevant since the financial crisis hashit the European countries. In fact, the crisis raised doubts if previous researchthat finds comparative advantages for more concentrated banking sectors...
Abgeschlossenes Projekt| Makroökonomie
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Forschungsprojekt
Wirtschaftsagenten treffen ihre tagtäglichen ökonomischen Entscheidungen auf Grundlage von Erwartungen über die zukünftige wirtschaftliche Situation. Ermöglicht dieser Mechanismus Regierungen zusätzlichen Spielraum eine Volkswirtschaft zu gestalten, indem gezielt Erwartungen von Agenten beeinflusst werden? Wir untersuchen diese Frage im Kontext einer der bedeutsamsten makroökonomischen...
Abgeschlossenes Projekt| Makroökonomie
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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
16.04.2018| Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich)
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper presents a general electricity-CO2 modeling framework that is able to simulate interactions of the energy-only market with different forms of national policy measures. We set up a two sector model where players can invest into various types of generation technologies including renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCTS). For a detailed representation of CCTS ...
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Energy Systems
9 (2018),4, S. 1025-1054
| Roman Mendelevitch, Pao-Yu Oei
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
The shift away from coal is at the heart of the global low-carbon transition. Can governments of coal-producing countries help facilitate this transition and benefit from it? This paper analyses the case for coal taxes as supply-side climate policy implemented by large coal exporting countries. Coal taxes can reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and benefit coal-rich countries through improved terms-of-trade ...
In:
Climatic Change
150 (2018), 1-2, S. 43-56
| Philipp M. Richter, Roman Mendelevitch, Frank Jotzo
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Pressemitteilung
German Institute for Economic Research: No reason for exaggerated concern about an economic slowdown
Euro area states can benefit from an interest rate increase in the U.S. in the short term, according to the findings of a current study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Thanks to the devaluation of the euro, their exports would rise to the extent that they are able to overcompensate ...
21.03.2018
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DIW Weekly Report 12 / 2018
To accompany the economic upturn in the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank has been raising its benchmark interest rate incrementally. In an increasingly globalized world in which the American economy plays a key role, an action like this has spillover effects on the international level. Based on a dynamic factor model, the present study shows that the member states of the euro area—Germany in particular—can ...
2018| Max Hanisch
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DIW Weekly Report 13/14 / 2018
On what and to what extent private households in Germany spend money varies significantly depending on employment status, income, and age. As this study based on the most current official sample survey of income and expenditure from 2013 shows, unemployed households on average spend over half of their income on basic needs such as living and food expenses while unemployed people living alone spend ...
2018| Karl Brenke, Jan Pfannkuche
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Weekly Report
On what and to what extent private households in Germany spend money varies significantly depending on employment status, income, and age. As this study based on the most current official sample survey of income and expenditure from 2013 shows, unemployed households on average spend over half of their income on basic needs such as living and food expenses while unemployed people living alone spend ...
28.03.2018| Karl Brenke
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Pressemitteilung
Die deutsche Wirtschaft dürfte im ersten Quartal kräftig um gut 0,7 Prozent gegenüber dem Schlussquartal zugelegt haben. Dies signalisiert das Konjunkturbarometer des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), das von 113 auf 118 Punkte gestiegen ist. Damit liegt es weiterhin deutlich über der 100-Punkte-Marke, die für ein durchschnittliches Wachstum steht.
„Die ...
28.03.2018