DIW Berlin engaged once more in the scientific exchange of PhD students and post docs. For three years now, Dr. Franziska Holz, researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment, has been organizing the regular meetings of young scholars from economic, political and engineering sciences that do research on natural gas markets. After meetings for example in Moscow, Oxford and Berlin, ...
DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Prof. Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics as DIW Research Professor for an intiial period of three years with effect from December 1. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment.
Dr. Franziska Holz, researcher in the department Energy, Transporation, Environment, won the 2nd Prize of the German Association for Energy Economics (GEE/Energieforum Berlin) for her dissertation "Modeling the European Natural Gas Market - Static and Dynamic Perspectives of an Oligopolistic Market". The thesis shows that the completion of the Single European Market for natural gas is not ...
The department Energy, Transportation, Environment welcomes the doctoral Students Felix Groba and Aleksandar Zaklan. Starting on September 1st, Mr. Felix Groba will join the team ”Sustainability Policies and Measures”. He focusses on the analysis of potentials for renewable energy expansion. Mr. Aleksandar Zaklan will work in the research area “Empirical Market Analyses” to ...
By Ralph Buehler, Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia TechJohn Pucher, Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers UniversityUwe Kunert, Senior Research Associate, Energy, Transportation and Environment at German Institute for Economic Research Prepared for the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. April 2009Download on Brooking's website ...