Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Optimal Infrastructures Investments for Renewable Energy Intergration in Germany

Cost-Minimal Investments into Conventional Generation Capacities under a Europe-Wide Renewables Policy

Is there still a Case for Merchant Interconnectors? Insights from an Analysis of Welfare and Distributional Aspects of Options for Network Expansion in the Baltic Sea Region

Network Expansion to Mitigate Market Power: How Increased Integration Fosters Welfare

Institutionelle Rahmung der Datenarchivierung: Positionen der Forschungsförderung und des RatSWD

Anhaltend hohe Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland

Kampf um Strom: die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Societal Change, Care Need and Long-Term Care Workforce in Selected European Countries

This paper aims to show the impact of societal change on the demand and supply of long-term care workforce. As age is the major driver of the need for care the growth in the numberof elderly and oldest old will increase the demand for long-term care workforce. Caregiving to the elderly is predominantly the task of the family in almost all European countries. However, the majority of European...

Impact of Ageing on Curative Health Care Workforce in Selected EU Countries

This paper shows the impact of demographic change on the demand for and supply of health care workforce in five countries until 2025: Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. The demographic change in all these countries is characterized by two developments (a) an ageing of the population forced by the shift of the baby-boomer to higher ages and the further increase in life expectancy, (b)...

Is It Really All that Bad? The Impact of Shortening High School Tenure on Grade Repetitions and Graduation Rates

Distributional Effects of Energy Transition: Impacts of Renewable Electricity Support in Germany

The discussion of the support for renewable energy must consider the distributional impact of cost allocation. The public is sensitive to social imbalances caused by rising power prices that might jeopardize the acceptance of energy transformation. By the end of 2012 about 19 percent of German power is produced with renewables other than hydropower. As a result, German consumers will pay for...

Synthese: Perspektiven für künftige Forschung

Economics of Cybercrime and Privacy: Incentives

Moderation

Rückkehr der Altersarmut: Alterssicherung aus der Lebenslaufperspektive

Discussant to: International Asset Allocations and Capital Flows: The Benchmark Effect. Sergio Schmukler

Respect Diversity: How Power Market Design Can Support Renewable Integration

Signature Requirements and Citizen Initiatives: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany

Signature requirements are often used as hurdles to prevent overuse of public referenda. We evaluate the causal effect of lowering signature requirements on the number of observed citizen initiatives. Based on municipality-level data for Germany, we make use of legislative changes at specific population thresholds to build an identification strategy using a regression discontinuity design. We find...

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase·out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition...

Murder, Smoke, and Shadows? The Effect of Local Crime on Well-Being