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This paper utilises the discontinuities induced by earnings caps for social security contributions (SSC) in Germany to analyse the effect of SSC on gross labour earnings. Economic incidence is identified by exploiting an increase of a regional earnings cap of health and long-term care insurance as a natural experiment. Based on administrative data, difference-in-differences models are estimated. I ...
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Labour Economics
49 (2017), S. 55-72
| Michael Neumann
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The effectiveness of a capacity market is analyzed by simulating three conditions that may cause suboptimal investment in the electricity generation: imperfect information and uncertainty; declining demand shocks resulting in load loss; and a growing share of renewable energy sources in the generation portfolio. Implementation of a capacity market can improve supply adequacy and reduce consumer costs. ...
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Utilities Policy
63 (2017), 9, S. 76-91
| Pradyumna C. Bhagwat, Kaveri K. Iychettira, Jörn Richstein, Emile J. L. Chappin, Laurens J. de Vries
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Open access to research data has been described as a driver of innovation and a potential cure for the reproducibility crisis in many academic fields. Against this backdrop, policy makers are increasingly advocating for making research data and supporting material openly available online. Despite its potential to further scientific progress, widespread data sharing in small science is still an ideal ...
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Palgrave Communications
3 (2017), 17051, S. 1-10
| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing, Stephanie Linek
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In energy systems with large shares of variable renewable energies, electricity generation is lower during unfavorable weather conditions. System-friendly wind turbines (SFTs) rectify this by producing a larger share of their electricity at low wind speeds. This paper analyzes to what extent SFTs' benefits out-weigh their additional costs and how to incentivize investments into them. Using a wind power ...
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Energy Economics
65 (2017), S. 343-354
| Nils May
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Using representative household survey data from Japan after the Fukushima accident, we estimate peoples' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuels in electricity generation. We rely on random parameter econometric techniques to capture various degrees of heterogeneity between the respondents, and use detailed regional information to assess how WTP varies with the distance to ...
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Energy Economics
65 (2017), S. 262-270
| Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder, Daiju Narita, Toshihiro Okubo
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Socioeconomic status (SES) and health during childhood have been consistently observed to be associated with health in old age in many studies. However, the exact mechanisms behind these two associations have not yet been fully understood. The key challenge is to understand how childhood SES and health are associated. Furthermore, data on childhood factors and life course mediators are sometimes unavailable, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
31 (2017), S. 1-10
| Eduwin Pakpahan, Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in spillovers) and flight-to-quality patterns, exploiting the heteroskedasticity of intraday changes in bond yields for identification. The paper finds that euro ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
70 (2017), S. 26-44
| Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher
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In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims at investigating the longitudinal effects of skill outcomes over the life course and the development of the key skills assessed in PIAAC. Moreover, additional and alternative background information ...
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Large-Scale Assessment in Education
5 (2017), 11 S.
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Claus Carstensen, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in environmental policy stringency on industry- and firm-level productivity growth in a panel of OECD countries. To test the strong version of the Porter Hypothesis (PH), we extend a neo-Schumpeterian productivity model to allow for effects of environmental policies. We use a new environmental policy stringency (EPS) index and let the effect of countries׳ ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
81 (2017), S. 209-226
| Silvia Albrizio, Tomasz Kozluk, Vera Zipperer
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When designing stated-choice experiments modellers may consider offering respondents an “indifference” alternative to avoid stochastic choices when utility differences between alternatives are perceived as too small. By doing this, the modeller avoids adding white noise to the data and may gain additional information. This paper proposes a framework to model discrete choices in the presence of indifference ...
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Journal of Choice Modelling
22 (2017), S. 13-23
| Francisco J. Bahamonde Birke, Isidora Navarro, Juan de Dios Ortúzar