Unilateral carbon pricing raises concerns about carbon leakage, prompting calls for protecting exposed industries through either free allocations of emission permits or a carbon border adjustment mechanism. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium trade model to evaluate the effects of these unilateral carbon pricing instruments. The model incorporates input-output linkages and firm...
Gegenstand des Vorhabens sind wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen zur Industrietransformation hin zu einer klimaneutralen und resilienten Wirtschaftsweise, welche die gesamte Breite dieser Thematik abdecken. Es werden Fragestellungen zur Industrietransformation in Deutschland, aber auch darüber hinaus mit Blick auf das energie- und klimapolitische Instrumentarium der EU formuliert und mit...
The project deals with scientific questions on industrial transformation towards a climate-neutral and resilient economy, covering the entire breadth of this topic. Questions on industrial transformation in Germany and beyond are formulated with a view to the EU's energy and climate policy instruments. The approach applies scientific methods throughout. The background to the project is the very...
Der rasante Verlust an Biodiversität und anhaltender Klimawandel sind auch Folge intensiver Landwirtschaft. Gleichzeitig gefährden sie die Landwirtschaft und eine sichere Ernährung. Das Leibniz-Lab „Systemische Nachhaltigkeit“ führt zu dieser elementaren Herausforderung maßgebliches Wissen in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft zusammen, um die Entwicklung und Umsetzung systemischer Lösungen...
The rapid loss of biodiversity and ongoing climate change are also the result of intensive agriculture. At the same time, they jeopardize agriculture and food security. The Leibniz Lab "Systemic Sustainability" brings together relevant knowledge in science and society on this fundamental challenge in order to promote the development and implementation of systemic solutions. The current socio...
Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff...
Selbst ohne die Kindergrundsicherung kann der Staat Milliarden für arme Kinder mobilisieren – ohne mehr Geld auszugeben. Dafür müsste er nur an gewisse Freibeträge ran. Mit großen Ambitionen war die Bundesregierung angetreten, um Kinderarmut durch die Einführung einer Kindergrundsicherung zu bekämpfen. Diese Kindergrundsicherung steht jedoch nun vor dem Scheitern, auch weil es vielen nicht um den Inhalt ...
This paper investigates how the number of brackets and the choice of upper cutoffs in grouped data affect the metric approximation of income and wealth. The literature currently lacks a definition of what should be considered too few brackets or too-low cut-offs. Using German survey data, we show that more than six (eight) brackets and an upper cut-off at the 95th (97th) percentile are sufficient to ...
Evidence on how proximity to ethnic outgroups shapes attitudes toward immigration remains inconclusive. We suggest this may be driven, in part, by the fact that studies rarely account for the role of residential segregation. We argue that how the minority-share in an environment affects majority-group attitudes will depend on how segregated groups are from one another. To explore this, we undertake ...
