Research Projects

Fossil Resource markets and climate policy: Stranded assets, Expectations and the political Economy of climate change (FoReSee)

Project synopsis Achieving the Paris agreement requires a radical transformation of the inherently inert energy system. Assets in the form of fossil energy resources and existing infrastructure along the fossil value chain are at the risk of rapidly losing value and becoming „stranded assets”. Asset owners, therefore, have incentives to delay or even prevent the implementation of climate policies...

Framework Contract for Workshops on Current Issues of Economic and Financial Policy

Conceptual and technical preparation and execution of workshops on current topics in close coordination with thematically responsible staff of the BMF (up to 6 workshops per year)

Further development and implementation of an integration bonus according to article 64 of the German Renewable Energy Act

The recent amendment of the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) aims at improving the integration of renewable electricity. Therefore, a special regulation should allow for financial incentives for the demand-oriented feed-in and for the improved grid and market integration of renewable electricity. This project supports the Federal Ministry for the Environment in the further development and...

Further development and implementation of an integration bonus according to article 64 of the German Renewable Energy Act

The recent amendment of the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) aims at improving the integration of renewable electricity. Therefore, a special regulation should allow for financial incentives for the demand-oriented feed-in and for the improved grid and market integration of renewable electricity. This project supports the Federal Ministry for the Environment in the further development and...

Further development of instruments for the promotion of renewable electricity

The electricity generation from renewable energies in Germany is supported by the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which was amended in 2004. With regard to the long-term promotion strategy the objective of this project is to analyse the further development of the EEG and other instruments for price or quantity regulation. In this context it is of particular importance to consider the...

Further Development of the European Emissions Trading System Post 2012

The European greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system has been amended considerably with regard to the period post 2012. This research project contributes to the analysis of the implementation and further development of emissions trading in Europe and the consequences for Germany, in particular.

Future of Fossil Fuels in the wake of greenhouse gas neutrality (FFF)

The objective of this project is to investigate previously under-researched aspects of decarbonizing the German electricity sector in the European context and to derive an assessment of concrete policy instruments for both the German and the European level. In doing so, we extend existing analyses that focus solely on a coal phase-out in Germany by considering a wider geographical scope including...

GDR-Past and Mental Health: Risk and Protection Factors (DDR-PSYCH)

After more than 25 years since reunification, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR; often known in English as East Germany; in German DDR) and its socio-political system have remained a point of reference for the analysis of societal, social, and individual processes in Germany. There is a lack of knowledge about the on-going impact of the East German past on the German general population....

GeNECA

Sustainability policy has to consider the interdependencies of human life and nature; it has to meet the high moral standards of intra- and intergenerational justice set by the Brundtland Commission in 1987; and, finally, it has to motivate people to behave accordingly. This is quite a challenging task that often is responded to in a too simplistic way. Current sustainability science and civic...

General Economic and Sectoral Effects of the Promotion of Renewable Energies

The federal government of Germany is promoting the diffusion of renewable energies, thereby intending to induce the structural change of the energy supply as well as enhance growth and employment. This project is going to analyse effects of supportive measures for the promotion of renewable energies on productivity, production and employment on the general economic and sectoral level.For this...

Generalisation of Research on Accounts and Cost Estimation - GRACE

GRACE (Generalisation of Research on Accounts and Cost estimation) is a research project funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework programme (Sustainable surface transport). It aims to support the development of sustainable transport systems by facilitating implementation of transport pricing systems that reflect the costs of infrastructure use. Its objectives and content are to: ...

German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC)

Despite of differences in energy politics and supply, Japan and Germany have to master similar challenges: To reorganise the energy supply system with the objective to attain a system which in a long-term shall be reliable and low in risk, resource-friendly and widely climate-neutral. At the same time, the ecological modernisation should maintain, or even strengthen the international...

GETTSIM – Contributions to an Open Source Tax- and Transfers Simulator

This project serves to further develop the open source software GETTSIM. GETTSIM is a simulation model written in the programming language Python, which can depict the German tax and transfer system. The software offers a multitude of applications in research and teaching. It is developed in cooperation with the IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) as well as other German research institutes and...

Global Coal Markets

DIW Berlin developed in the framework of a joint research project with Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development PESD the model Coalmod-World. Coal is not only the dirtiest but also the most consumed of all fossil energy sources worldwide. This research project aimed at capturing the current state of the main coal markets in the world, namely the US, China, South Africa,...

Global Economic Costs of Conflict (GECC)

The effects of conflict on civilians due to death, serious injury, or other direct and indirect outcomes are immense. The objective of this research project is to estimate the global economic costs of mass violent conflict that is the measurable worldwide impact of conflict, and to provide estimates both at the country level and across time. In doing so, the project analyses different...

Global Food Markets: Global Food Security - Challenge for Production and Consumption

Scarce resources, the rising demand for agricultural products and growing land-use competition between the production of energy and food have increased the importance of strategies for food security. In the research project “Global Food Markets: Global Food Security – Challenges for Production and Consumption” both supply and demand-oriented approaches that can realize sustainable supply increases...

Globalisation of R&D in multinational corporations in Germany - An International Comparison

Globalisation of R&D in Multinational Corporations in Germany - An International Comparison

Going for gold? The intangible effects of the Olympic Games in London, Paris and Berlin

This project aims to measure the intangible impact of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Paris and Berlin. It will achieve this by gathering primary longitudinal data from individuals living in each of the three cities over the period 2011-2013 to see what effect, if any, the Olympics have on a comprehensive set of subjective well-being (SWB) outcomes. In particular, it will uniquely show how these...

Great Expectations? Germany's Recovery from the Great Depression, 1932-1936

The overarching objective of the project is to describe and analyse the evolution of expectations about key macroeconomic variables in Germany between 1932 and 1934 and use these insights to evaluate their significance for the German recovery from the Great Depression in a structural macroeconomic model. We aim to assemble qualitative and quantitative evidence about the evolution of expectations...