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DIW Discussion Papers 2081 / 2024
We consider structural vector autoregressions identified through stochastic volatility. Our focus is on whether a particular structural shock is identified by heteroskedasticity without the need to impose any sign or exclusion restrictions. Three contributions emerge from our exercise: (i) a set of conditions under which the matrix containing structural parameters is partially or globally unique; (ii) ...
2024| Helmut Lütkepohl, Fei Shang, Luis Uzeda, Tomasz Woźniak
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Externe Working Papers
Achieving climate neutrality and energy independence will require the accelerated diffusion ofexisting technologies, further cost reductions, as well as innovation in new technologies.However, climate related frontier innovation, as measured by patent fi lings, has been decliningsince 2012. In contrast, the deployment of existing technologies seems on the rise. The focus ondiffusion and commercialization ...
Berlin:
d\carb future economy forum,
2024,
4 S.
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Externe Working Papers
Making macroeconomics fit for a climate-neutral future: The European Union decided to be climate-neutral by 2050 and, hence, become the first climate-neutral continent in the world. Becoming climate-neutral can be considered one of the biggest challenges in our industrial societies. This transition will shape our future tremendously. The invasion of Ukraine further reinforced the necessity to speed ...
Berlin:
d\carb future economy forum,
2024,
6 S.
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Externe Working Papers
Critical discussions about decarbonising our economy: This new series brings together leading thinkers in the political economy of the environment to discuss why business as usual is still going so strong, despite the scientific evidence that urgent action is needed. In this series, we ask our guests "what is holding up the green transition"? The events explore systemic root causes of the climate crisis ...
Berlin:
d\carb future economy forum,
2024,
4 S.
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Externe Working Papers
Economic policy approaches for the climate-critical decade: Part I of the Policy Forum brings together leading experts from the fields of Green Growth, Postgrowth, and Degrowth to debate their different visions for the pathway toward sustainable economies. We will give room to separately explore the ideas and arguments of Green Growth and Postgrowth/Degrowth and bring the different approaches together ...
Berlin:
d\carb future economy forum,
2024,
7 S.
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DIW Weekly Report 15 / 2024
German companies view high and uncertain electricity prices a major challenge. A Renewable Energy Pool (RE-Pool), wherein the favorable conditions of competitive tenders for new wind and solar power projects are passed on to electricity consumers, could hedge such price risks. Consumers’ electricity prices are thus hedged for the share of their consumption that corresponds to the RE-Pool’s generation ...
2024| Karsten Neuhoff, Mats Kröger, Leon Stolle
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
We investigate if and how adverse life events – early widowhood, divorce, disability, job loss - trigger informal insurance responses in the form of intervivos gifts. Drawing from Dutch register data, we construct comprehensive panels comprising individuals undergoing such shocks in the period 2011-2017, and we analyse the patterns of gift receipt surrounding these events. We run separate event...
24.04.2024| Mathis Sansu, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Research on parental school choice provides strong evidence of so-called ‘white flight’ – that ethnic majority parents avoid choosing a local school if it contains large numbers of ethnic minority students. In this study, we examine such segregating choices in a formally stratified school system. Theoretically, we argue that segregating choices are less common in an educational setting where...
08.05.2024| Hanno Kruse, University of Bonn
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The success of climate policies depends crucially on the dynamics of public support. Using unique longitudinal data from three surveys conducted between 2019 and 2022, we study the variations of public support for carbon pricing in Germany. The period includes two relevant events: the introduction and ramping up of carbon pricing in Germany and the exogenous increase in energy prices following the...
22.05.2024| Stephan Sommer, Bochum University of Applied Sciences and RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly ordinal, most of the literature’s results are easily reversed. We systematically assess this claim. To do so, we replicate the universe of wellbeing research published in top economics journals...
05.06.2024| Anthony Lepinteur, University of Luxembourg