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Economic inequality is rising globally and due to developments in information technologies and globalization, nowadays individuals are more exposed to such an inequality than ever. Recent studies show that exposure to inequality may shape economic decisions. In this article, we test whether contributions in the public goods game are sensitive to information about inequality of personal benefits between ...
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
92 (2021), 101679, 10 S.
| Pablo Brañas-Garza, Elena Molis, Levent Neyse
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The experimental literature on antitrust enforcement provides robust evidence that communication plays an important role for the formation and stability of cartels. We extend these studies through a design that distinguishes between innocuous communication and communication about a cartel, sanctioning only the latter. To this aim, we introduce a participant in the role of the competition authority, ...
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
76 (2021), 102728, 25 S.
| Maximilian Andres, Lisa Bruttel, Jana Friedrichsen
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This paper examines medium and long-term perspectives for global steam coal production and trade, considering the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and plausible recovery scenarios in its aftermath. We use an interdisciplinary approach to develop a range of stylized global coal demand scenarios until 2040 depicting the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recovery stimuli. Additional ...
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Applied Energy
288 (2021), 116564, 16 S.
| Paola Yanguas Parra, Christian Hauenstein, Pao-Yu Oei
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The power sector needs to ensure a rapid transition towards a low-carbon energy system to avoid the dangerous consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Storage technologies are a promising option to provide the power system with the flexibility required when intermittent renewables are present in the electricity generation mix. This paper focuses on the role of electricity storage in energy systems ...
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Energy Policy
151 (2021), 112159, 19 S.
| Sara Giarola, Anahi Molar-Cruz, Kathleen Vaillancourt, Olivier Bahn, Luis Sarmiento, Adam Hawkes, Maxwell Brown
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The transformation of the electricity sector is a central element of the transition to a decarbonized economy. Conventional generators powered by fossil fuels have to be replaced by variable renewable energy (VRE) sources in combination with electricity storage and other options for providing temporal flexibility. We discuss the market dynamics of increasing VRE penetration and its integration in the ...
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Annual Review of Resource Economics
13 (2021), S. 443-467
| Javier López Prol, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Different options for a reform of the EU Emissions Trading System are discussed to ensure carbon price incentives for mitigation options in the basic materials sector, while minimizing carbon leakage risks. This paper quantifies carbon leakage risks, distributional implications, and additional revenues associated with an import-only border carbon adjustment (BCA), a symmetric (import and export) BCA, ...
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Ecological Economics
189 (2021), 107168, 15 S.
| Jan Stede, Stefan Pauliuk, Gilang Hardadi, Karsten Neuhoff
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Background: Some have hypothesized that the coronavirus crisis may result in a retraditionalization of behaviour. This paper examines this hypothesis by analyzing how the time fathers and mothers spent with their children changed during the first lockdown in the case of Germany.Methods: Data for this investigation come from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The outcome variable is the time spent on ...
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Demographic Research
44 (2021), Art. 4, S. 99-124
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sabine Zinn
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this paper, we ...
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Environment International
146 (2021), 106205, 26 S.
| Daniela V. Pachito, Frank Pega, Jelena Bakusic, Hannes Kröger ...
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Labor markets in low- and middle-income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have been implemented to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplified registration procedures, reductions of payroll taxes, and interventions enforcing formalization. We compile a database of 170 impact estimates from 38 academic ...
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World Development
138 (2021), 105256, 19 S.
| Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
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This study sheds light on whether the provision of information on costs, financing options, and returns of college education results in higher application and college enrollment rates. Based on a behavioral intervention with more than 1,000 high school students in Germany, we provide evidence that the provision of such information increases college application and enrollment rates, in particular for ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), S. 524-549
| Frauke Peter, C.Katharina Spiess, Vaishali Zambre