The transition away from a fossil-fuel powered economy towards a cleaner production system will create winners and losers in the global trade system. We compile a list of 'brown' traded products whose use is highly likely to decline if the world is to mitigate climate change, and explore which countries are most at risk of seeing their productive capabilities 'stranded'. Using methods from economic ...
GC PhD researcher Andreas Leibing is currently visiting Stanford University for a research stay during the spring quarter hosted and sponsored by Eric Bettinger. Andreas himself is glad about this opportunity, and describes his stay as follows: "I will stay at Stanford University as a visiting student researcher for the spring quarter and work on my job market paper. I look forward to meeting all ...
In Deutschland werden am Samstag die letzten drei Kernkraftwerke abgeschaltet. Dazu eine Stellungnahme von Claudia Kemfert, Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt im DIW Berlin:
The DIW Graduate Center is pleased to offer a Masterclass on causal machine learning, taught by Michael Knaus. It is designed for all doctoral students and researchers at the DIW who would like to improve their understanding of machine learning and data science more broadly. The Masterclass lasts one day. Please register with the Graduate Center on a first-come, first-served basis: gradcenter@diw...
This course aims at giving tools to students for entering the frontier of research regarding two new lines of research: (a) models of wealth-inequality determinants and dynamics, and (b) models of financial stability. The focus will be on presenting general-purpose analytical and computational techniques that enable students to replicate and extend frontier-research papers in these areas. The...
