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Determining a robust mix of energy carriers for a carbon-neutral EU
Decarbonising the European energy system requires a fundamental transformation in the way societies provide, transport and consume energy. Disagreement exists over how this system should look in 2050. In this project, we prepared an overview report on the decarbonisation options for coal, natural gas, and hydrogen in Europe.
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Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The energy cost burden is communicated as a major competitiveness concern especially by energy intensive industries. This project provides a transparent, up-to-date index of sector-specific industrial unit energy costs. We update official statistical data using information on energy use and fuel prices and provide a fuel-specific breakdown of overall unit energy costs for each manufacturing sector.
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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According to the European directive establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas allowance trading each Member State shall develop a national allocation plan (NAP) stating the total quantity of allowances and how it proposes to allocate them. In 2006 the Member States have to notify their plans for the trading period 2008-12. The objective of this project is to support the government in the design of...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The project aims to assess the impacts of public support to the introduction of electromobility. Several political instruments will be analyzed with respect to their costs, benefits and in particular their impacts on the electricity market and grid. One objective of the project is to derive the optimal timing of the political instruments such as taxes or subsidies. The project is carried out...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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DIW Berlin's Climate Policy department has played an active role in coordinating the dialogue process between academic partners under the "Economics of Climate Change" program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and stakeholders from the business, civil society and governance communities. This dialogue process included a transfer of knowledge and scientific results...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The German decision to phase-out nuclear energy and the impact of such a policy on electricity prices and the fulfillment of climate goals has been debated nationally as well as on European level. This study develops the expected effects by means of a European electricity market model and quantifies price developments, power plant investments, CO2 emissions and prices in different scenarios in...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Distributional Effects of Energy Transition
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Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Informal care provided by family members is the central pillar of home care in Germany. In view of the increasing need for care and the shortage of skilled workers in formal care, the informal pillar may even gain in importance in the future. It is of central importance that informal caregivers find conditions that make it easier for them to engage in informal care. It is well known that informal...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The project attempts to bridge the gap between national accounts income aggregates and inequality studies based on micro data for Germany more systematically. We combine personal income tax statistics, household surveys such as the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and national accounts data on income distribution in a comprehensive and consistent manner to build “Distributional National...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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By developing publicly available, adaptive, and (re-)usable Domain Data Protocols (DDPs) that can be referenced for data management, the project aims to increase the quality of data management in the field of empirical educational research and to ensure the continued use of these research data.
The project will develop DDPs referring to the specific data type in concrete terms for all relevant...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Theoretical models of acculturative stress predict the psychological impacts of adaptation to a new culture and the important role these impacts play in the development of migrants’ mental health. This development is shaped by both stressors and resilience factors within the context of the host country’s migration regime. Personality characteristics and family relations are two crucial factors in...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Are some groups of parents in Germany more likely to choose high quality institutions for their children than others, e.g. because they lack the necessary information or have varying preferences? Are mothers whose children attend high-quality settings more satisfied and more likely to be employed?
These are some of the questions, on which the project ‘Early childhood education and care quality...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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The aim of the project is to develop early warning systems for banking and sovereign debt crises. On the one hand, the project uses Bayesian model averaging methods. One the other hand, it draws on dynamic factor models.
Completed Project| Macroeconomics
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This study analyzes the effects of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). Macroeconomic effects, as well as effects on individual companies, are considered. The analysis focuses on the electricity markets and reflects the interactions of the different environmental policies and their mutual impacts. Additionally, the study analyzes alternative support policies and develops...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The research project contributes to the cost benefit analysis of the use of renewable energy sources in Germany, in particular with regard to electricity and heat generation. This will improve the foundations for the assessment of the current use and the future development of renewable energies. The analysis covers the current impacts and the development until 2020 and 2030.
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The principal output from the project will be new findings on economic and social determinants of preferences for redistribution, attitudes towards immigration, and political party affinities and voting patterns in Germany and the United Kingdom. The project is interdisciplinary in nature and is related to both the economic and political science literature. The core aim of the programme is to...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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The goal of the project is to provide scientific advice to the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA/DEHSt) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment in evaluating, implementing nationally, and further developing the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). In particular, the project considers challenges and policy options arising in the context of the political decision process towards adapting the...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The purpose of the Study is to explain and quantify the causal relationship between competition policy, competition, and market outcomes in the telecoms sector, on the basis of sound and established econometric techniques. We aim at providing instruments and evidence that may help to improve the effectiveness of competition policy interventions and to inform the public about the effects of...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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This project aims (1) to collect panel survey data in Kyrgyzstan, (2) to investigate well-being and behaviour of individuals and households in this country, and (3) to improve research capacity within the Central Asian region.
Our "Life in Kyrgyzstan" panel survey collects data of 3,000 households annually over a period of three years (2010-2012). The data covers information on demographics,...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets