To decarbonize the economy, many governments have set targets for the use of renewable energy sources. These are often formulated as relative shares of electricity demand or supply. Implementing respective constraints in energy models is a surprisingly delicate issue. They may cause a modeling artifact of excessive electricity storage use. We introduce this phenomenon as “unintended storage cycling”, ...
Fossile Kapitalanlagen entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette – von Reserven bis zu Infrastruktur und Unternehmenswerten – werden durch die Transformation des Energiesystems in den nächsten Jahrzehnten massiv an Wert verlieren, also zu „Stranded Assets“ werden. Die Erfassung dieser Verluste hilft, Einzelinteressen in der Klimapolitik besser zu verstehen.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts from different countries and different disciplines (economics, history, law, sociology, etc.) whose “common denominator” is their interest in rent control. This event aims to be a forum for discussing rent control experiences around the world. It should also foster a stronger network among scholars, thus facilitating joint research...
Um die steigenden Preise für Lebensmittel in Griff zu bekommen, müssen die Fleischpreise steigen. Klingt verrückt – aber nur so entsteht vollständige Kostentransparenz. Der starke Anstieg der Nahrungsmittelpreise trifft den Nerv vieler Menschen. Die teurer werdenden Lebensmittel bedeuten eine höchst unsoziale Inflation: Sie trifft vor allem Menschen mit geringen Einkommen, die einen deutlich höheren ...
The literature on the effects of incentives in survey research is vast and covers a diversity of survey modes. The mode of probability-based online panels, however, is still young and so is research into how to best recruit sample units into the panel. This paper sheds light on the effectiveness of a specific type of incentive in this context: a monetary incentive that is paid conditionally upon panel ...
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by SME, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. Similar developments can be observed in several other European economies. Using a German dataset with 700,000 firm-level observations, we analyze this largely undiscovered phenomenon in professional services, the fourth largest sector of the business economy in the EU-15, ...
