Climate Policy Department Events

In its Climate Action Programme 2030, the German government presented concrete measures for the country to reach its 2030 climate target: a reduction of greenhouse gas levels by 55 percent below 1990 levels. At the same time, the German government officially declared its aim to take a leading position in Sustainable Finance. Hence, the country intends to underpin the transformation to a low-carbon ...

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Abstract:   I derive an optimal benefit-based corporate tax rate formula as a function of the public input elasticity of profits and the (net of) tax elasticity of profits. I argue that the existence of the corporate income tax should be justified by the benefit-based view of taxation: firms should pay tax according to the benefits they receive from the use of the public input. I argue that ...

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This workshop focused on the question, how the financial market can accompany and support the transformation towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.

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In order to transform the economy towards CO2 neutrality in the sense of the Paris Agreement, financial products are needed to support the financing of this process. In this workshop, existing and possible offers for different product categories (investment products, banking products and insurance products) were discussed, obstacles and problems in the development and introduction of such products ...

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Abstract: Through social interaction in the workplace, coworkers are likely to learn from each other (knowledge spillover) and this may extend the returns to firm-provided training from trained workers onto untrained coworkers. Based on German matched-employer employee data covering the universe of employees we investigate whether unskilled workers derive long-term career benefits if they were ...

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This workshop focused on the question, how the financial market can accompany and support the transformation towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.

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Abstract: Increasing mothers’ labour supply in a child’s preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that can lead to a negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. As mothers’ work hours increase, income will rise and we ask whether income can compensate for the negative effect of hours by adopting a novel mediation analysis that exploits exogenous ...

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The Sustainable Finance Platform meets regularly for research meetings to discuss current research topics and projects and their relevance for the political discourse at national and EU level. The aim of the research meetings is an open, informal exchange to promote the discourse on sustainable finance from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our different ...

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Abstract: We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for inheritance taxation. The ...

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The Sustainable Finance Platform was presented at the Sustainable Finance Summit in Frankfurt.

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In line with the continuously carbon-intensive consumption patterns of our societies, the steel, cement and other basic materials still used in end-use sectors and products across our economies entail 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 2/3 of German industrial emissions. To avoid these emissions, material producers and users are proposing a portfolio of options, including clean production ...

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DIW Berlin, EUI-Florence School of Regulation, Technical University Berlin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University College London and Université Libre de Bruxelles organized a PhD Summer School on "Economic Foundations for Energy and Climate Policies". The Summer School was held from 9th to 13th September 2019 at DIW Berlin. The second edition of the School will be ...

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Internal meeting of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Board of the German government with regard to the current discourse on the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. The Sustainable Finance Research Platform prepared a first evaluation as input.  

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The Sustainable Finance Research Platform meets regularly for research meetings to discuss current research topics and projects and their relevance for the political discourse at national and EU level. The aim of the research meetings is an open, informal exchange to promote the discourse on sustainable finance from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our ...

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The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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The Sustainable Finance Platform meets regularly for research meetings to discuss current research topics and projects and their relevance for the political discourse at national and EU level. The aim of the research meetings is an open, informal exchange to promote the discourse on sustainable finance from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our different ...

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The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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The workshop gives an overview of mitigation options, possible set of policy instruments, and how they influence decisions (engage, improve economics, support innovation etc.), outline for the analytic approach and discussion of the day.

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The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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