Research Projects

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...

Green Guarantee Pension

The Green Guarantee Pension is designed to ensure that people who have worked the majority of their lives, brought up children, looked after other people or have acquired other rights under the statutory pension insurance (Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung) receive a pension in old age that is above the means-tested basic pension. The Guarantee Pension increases pension entitlements within the...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios for the Projection Report 2009 in the framework of the European GHG monitoring (Policy scenarios for climate protection V)

In the framework of the international, European, and national climate protection policy it is necessary to evaluate the future development of greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of actual and additional policies and measures in quantitative terms and at regular intervals. This project aims at developing and analyzing policy scenarios for climate protection, which will provide an important...

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Scenarios for the Projection Report 2011 in the Famework of the European GHG Monitoring (Policy Scenarios for Climate Protection VI)

In the framework of the international, European, and national climate protection policy it is necessary to evaluate the future development of greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of actual and additional policies and measures in quantitative terms and at regular intervals. This project aims at developing and analyzing policy scenarios for climate protection, which will provide an important...

Growth and Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP)

The main purpose of GRASP is to address policy concerns associated with growth in an integrated analytical framework. This framework is built on the Schumpeterian growth approach developed by Philippe Aghion. It emphasizes quality-improving innovation in imperfectly competitive markets and suggests that optimal growth policy may depend on levels of technological (and financial) development and on...

Herders coping with hazards in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia

Aim of the projectWith climate change, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia are increasingly experiencing natural hazards. The livelihoods of herders are particularly affected by natural hazards, which render them vulnerable to poverty. The proposed project has two objectives: (1) to extend the available knowledge on how herders in Central Asia cope with natural hazards and (2) to improve the research capacity...

How to increase employment of the elderly

IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany”

More than a million refugees from Ukraine have sought protection in Germany since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The project “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is creating the first representative database on these people, on the conditions that led them to flee, and on their integration into German society. Findings drawn from these data will lay the foundation for groundbreaking...

ICT-related industrial policies: objectives and concept

Illustration of Investments in Energy-Efficient Building Refurbishment in Germany 2010 to 2018

Impact of demographic change on the demand for good and services in Germany until 2050

The expected demographic change will have an markedly impact on all parts of the society. Beside the often discussed influence of an ageing population on the sustainability of the social security systems the demographic change will also have an impact on size and structure of the private consumption. Households headed by elderly persons consume in general no other goods and services than family...

Impact of Renewable Energy Sources (ImpRES)

In this research project we analyze different kinds of economic impacts of renewable energy expansion in Germany with regard to costs and benefits. In particular, we focus on the impact on innovation, distributional effects, and interactions between electromobility and power markets. Project description and publications: impres-projekt

Implementation of the EU Renewables Directive against the backdrop of the European energy markets (EUREEM)

The EUREEM project assesses how the refinement and implementation of the EU Renewable Energy Directive can aid the energy transition in Germany. Refinement and implementation needs to take account of complex decision process and the need to account of multiple interests at the European level. Hence, a constructive proposal for the refinement of the directive needs to consider a longer-term...

Improvement of the research data infrastructure in the area of high-worth individuals with the Socio-Economic Panel

The lack of a register-based sampling frame on high-worth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to sample high-worth individuals in voluntary scientific surveys. As a result, these individuals are typically under-represented in population surveys. In a novel research design, we draw on register data on the shareholding structures of companies as a sampling frame. Our design...

Incentive Regulation, Employment, and Network Investments

The amendment of the German Energy Act 2005 has introduced a regulation of electricity and gas networks which replaces negotiated third-party access. The Energy Act assigned the task of regulating to the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway. The regulation begins with a cost oriented approach and benchmarking. In addition, the Energy Act allows for the...

Incentive-compatible Mechanism Design for Privacy

This project entails two parts. The first part is entitled “Auctioning Identity Data: Experimental Evidence” and presents an experimental reverse Vickrey auction of  personal type information that allows social comparisons. In this auction, it is analyzed how information sensitivity influences price-setting behavior of bidders. The result shows that negative sensitivity increases ask prices for...

Inclusion of Consumption in Emissions Trading

Context While the UNFCCC Lima outcome and the UNSG’s Climate Summit, among other developments, reconfirmed that pricing carbon remains a key emissions reduction tool, the focus of international negotiations has shifted from global carbon pricing mechanisms towards support for countries in their implementation of national transformation strategies, often including forms of pricing. But if...

Inclusive Productivity

Increasing Differences in Productivity

Increasing the flexibility of labor markets by subsidizing social security contributions in the low wage sector - A microsimulation study for Germany

This research project aims to analyze the links between the degree of labor market flexibility, marginal employment ("geringfuegige Beschaeftigung") and the institutional arrangements that lead to the creation of a low wage sector in Germany. In the on-going economic and political discussion, the development of a low wage sector is seen to have great potential to increase labor market flexibility...