Thema Konjunktur

Hoffnung auf eine Fortsetzung der Erholung ist noch nicht geschwunden: Interview

Trumps protektionistische Handelspolitik hat ihre Ziele verfehlt

Nach seiner Wahl hat Donald Trump recht schnell seiner angekündigten America-First-Strategie Taten folgen lassen. So standen aggressive Interventionen im Zentrum von Trumps Handelspolitik. Ihm ging es vor allem darum, Produktionsstätten und Arbeitsplätze, die ins Ausland verlagert wurden, wieder zurück in die USA zu holen und Handelsbilanzdefizite zu senken. Es zeigt sich aber, dass die zahlreichen ...

Konjunkturelle Effekte der finanzpolitischen Maßnahmen des Konjunkturprogramms: Endbericht; Kurzexpertise im Auftrag des Bundesfinanzministeriums (fe 3/19)

The Impact of Transmission Development on a 100% Renewable Electricity Supply: A Spatial Case Study on the German Power System

In this paper, we analyze the interdependence between the structure of transmission infrastructure and the electricity mix, applied to the case of Germany today and into the future. In particular, we are interested in how an energy system based on a high share of distributed renewable sources operates under different transmission regimes, for example, copper plate or more constrained network topologies. ...

An Introduction to Transmission Network Investment in the New Market Regime

Transmission network investment has emerged as a pivotal problem for the electricity industry, as it adapts to the change from traditional to renewable generation, from large scale to distributed generation and from vertically integrated monopolies to vertically separated production stages in various states of competition. Because transmission coordinates the generation, distribution and sales activities ...

A Green COVID-19 Recovery of the EU Basic Materials Sector: Identifying Potentials, Barriers and Policy Solutions

This paper explores which climate-friendly projects could be part of the COVID-19 recovery while jump-starting the transition of the European basic materials industry. Findings from a literature review on technology options in advanced development stages for climate-friendly production and enhanced sorting and recycling of steel, cement, aluminium and plastics are combined with insights from interviews ...

Subgroup Analysis of Investment Constraints: Evidence from Ugandan Microenterprises

This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small business owners in Kampala, Uganda. We run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) under which the treatment group receives a calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a plan to reach this goal. The control group is given a plain calendar. We find no average effect on savings, ...

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Savings Goal Calendars as Soft Commitment Devices: Evidence from Small Business Owners in Uganda

This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small business owners in Kampala, Uganda. We run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) under which the treatment group receives a calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a plan to reach this goal. The control group is given a plain calendar. We find no average effect on savings, ...

Pipes, Taps and Vendors: An Integrated Water Management Approach

This paper applies a microeconomic-based stylized model to identify the optimal modal split of water supply infrastructure in regions of the Global South against the background of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6. We assume a linear city, with some plausible assumptions on income and willingness-to-pay, and then calculate the optimal tap density, leading in turn to an optimal modal split ...