Does increased legal infrastructure empower victims to leave abusive relationships? Structural barriers often prevent victims of intimate partner violence from seeking help, with two-thirds of female victims in Europe neither reporting incidents nor accessing support. I study Germany’s 2002 Act on Protection against Violence, which introduced residence bans in shared households and temporarily awarded ...
This work presents a multi-stage stochastic optimization model to analyze price dynamics and reliability of supply in a 100% renewable power system. The stochastic framework captures uncertainty arising from the intermittency of weather-dependent renewable energy sources and compares three market design options for a future fully renewable German electricity market: an energy-only market without...
Die Reichen stärker besteuern? Klingt fair und könnte Milliarden einbringen. Doch eine Vermögensteuer ist nicht effizient, Immobilien lassen sich besser besteuern. Deutschland steht vor einer gewaltigen finanzpolitischen Herausforderung: Bildung, Innovation, Klimaschutz, Infrastruktur und sozialer Zusammenhalt erfordern Milliarden. Gleichzeitig schrumpft der Spielraum des Staates – Schuldenbremse ...
