Die EU-Staaten haben ihr Ziel zur Begrenzung des Ausstoßes von Treibhausgasen deutlich verschärft. Dazu ein Statement von Karsten Neuhoff, Leiter der Abteilung Klimapolitik am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
We study the willingness to get vaccinated and the acceptance of a policy of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 in June and July 2020 in Germany based on a representative real time survey, a random sub-sample (SOEP-CoV) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). About 70 percent of adults in Germany would voluntarily get vaccinated against the corona virus if a vaccine without side effects was ...
The present paper studies the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on risk preferences. Using real-time panel data from the year before the pandemic and from the first few months of the pandemic in Germany (April to July 2020), we provide robust evidence that exposure to COVID-19 reduces individual risk tolerance. We establish a causal link between the pandemic and risk tolerance by exploiting longitudinal ...
DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die heutige Sitzung des EZB-Rats wie folgt:
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today’s announcements by the ECB as follows: