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Research Project
The heat supply in the city of Berlin will have to be substantially reformed to reach the goal of climate neutrality by 2045 while it has to cope with high gas prices today. In the research project Open Heat BE, two open numerical models are combined to analyse the short term and long term challenges of heat supply in Berlin. At TU Berlin, the energy system model GENeSYS-MOD is used at municipal...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
In the project "Open Hydrogen Modeling", we expand and link three Berlin-based open-source models: the Global Gas Market Model (GGM), the Global Energy System Model (GENeSYS-MOD), and the electricity sector model DIETER. We investigate the prospects of the hydrogen markets in creation, ranging from the global market to the European and German market. We are particularly interested in the...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
The goal of this project is to empirically analyse labour market and welfare effects of the current tax-benefit systems in Britain and Germany as well as various policy reforms on the basis of behavioural micro-simulation models, TAXBEN for Britain and STSM for Germany. These models account for the details of the tax-benefit systems in both countries and can be used to perform ex-ante analyses of...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The project looks at different options of a per-capita rebate of revenues from CO2 pricing in Germany. The German government has decided to introduce a national emissions trading system for the heat and transport sectors in its Climate Action Programme 2030. Such a CO2 pricing implies distributional challenges, since lower-income and middle-income households are more exposed to CO2 prices relative...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The Copernicus Project P2X explores the implementation and validation of “Power-to-X” within the context of the Energiewende. The project is divided into six technology clusters, three of which focus on electrolysis and the other three on catalysis. The work of DIW Berlin is within the first catalysis cluster (FC-B1) and the economies of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC). The DIW is also...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
Over recent decades, European societies have witnessed increasing social inequalities. Faced with more flexible labor markets, open trade, and technological as well as ongoing demographic changes, European welfare models have been unable to effectively address this issue. Recent developments such as the yellow vest movement in France and the rise of populist parties across Europe have renewed...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
In two large-scale studies, researchers are investigating short- and medium-term dynamics within and between social relationships. These are the first studies of their kind to take not only quantitative but also qualitative behavioral relationship characteristics into account. Using multivariate analysis methods, they examine the influence of personality characteristics (e.g., extraversion,...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), carried out on behalf of the OECD, examines the basic skills that are necessary for adults to participate successfully in society and working life. Findings from the 2011/2012 wave of the PIACC study were released in October 2013.
Around 98% of the approximately 5,400 PIAAC survey respondents in Germany agreed to...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
For more information on the project, please refer to http://www.maritimesecurity.eu/index.php?id=159&L=1
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Energy prices have varied hugely between countries and over time, yet the share of national income spent on energy has remained surprisingly constant. The foundational theories of economic growth account for only about half the growth observed in practice. Despite escalating warnings for more than two decades about the planetary risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions, most governments have...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The project “Policies to finance energy efficiency” rigorously evaluates efficiency financing facilities using advanced econometric methods. The aim of the study is to, first, identify market failures that stifle the financing of energy efficiency, and, second, suggest policy interventions that may address these failures. Special attention is given to whether loans or subsidies are better suited...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The core aim of DIA-CORE is to ensure a continuous assessment of the existing policy mechanisms and to establish a fruitful stakeholder dialogue on future policy needs for renewable electricity (RES-E), heating & cooling (RES-H), and transport (RES-T). The project consortium assesses the role that policies play in the support of renewable energies. Looking at individual EU member states, risk...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The main objective of Germany’s energy policy is an 80% reduction in primary energy consumption by the year 2050. To facilitate this objective, the overall target has been broken down in additional targets, such as a 20% increase in energy efficiency in buildings by 2020. We conducted five studies to address these questions regarding energy efficiency in buildings:
What is the cost-benefit...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The goal of this project is the theoretical and empirical analysis of the political decision to supply public education. Polit-economical models need to be developed to motivate the decentralized allocation of public education. These models will be used to answer a series of questions, i.e. individual preferences for supply of decentralized education, or the possibility of financing education via...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The rise of populism continues to shake numerous Western democracies, often leading to exclusionary or authoritarian tendencies (Mudde, 2004). This is evident in events such as the US Capitol storming in January 2021 and the attempted coup in Germany in December 2022. The destabilizing threat to democratic institutions across the EU and the US underscores the importance of understanding populism’s...
Completed Project| Climate Policy, Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The project examines the transmission channels between public investment and private investment activity in Germany, estimating the aggregate relationship with econometric models, focusing on the specific effects of individual investment categories (e.g., R & D investment) and areas of responsibility (e.g., Defense, Education, Environment). In view of possible barriers to investment, another...
Completed Project| Forecasting and Economic Policy, Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Previous and recent studies (in German only) are available at http://www.e-fi.de/indikatorenstudien.html
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
This project further develops an indicator system for a ranking of German States with regard to renewable energy. Input and output indicators representing the use of renewable energy as well as technological progress and structural change have to be quantified and aggregated to composite indicators. We analyze best practice in German States and derive recommendations for energy and technology policy.
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
In the project, calculations are to be carried out on the return on different forms of old-age provision for three types of individuals: low earners, average earners and high earners. A distinction is made between calculations for the statutory pension insurance (GRV) and for company pensions (BAV). The main aim is to show how different legal regulations in the GRV and BAV that will be effective...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
The Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Rationality and Competition” combines the research programs of behavioral and neoclassical economists to study applied economic questions that are of high policy relevance. The focus CRC TRR 190 is on the economic behavior and performance of individuals and firms: How do systematic biases in expectations, decision processes, and preferences affect the...
Completed Project| Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study