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Introducing Open Data Format: A Platform-Independent, Non-Proprietary, Metadata-Enriched, Multilingual Data Format for Tabular Data

This paper introduces the Open Data Format (ODF), a non-proprietary, metadata-enriched, and zipcompressed data format for tabular data alongside statistical software packages. It embeds structured, multilingual metadata directly within the data file, using the well-established DDI-Codebook standard (DDI Alliance, 2014), and enables access to both data and documentation within common statistical environments. ...

From first-mover risk to late-mover risk in the steel transition

The project will analyze how to deploy the first wave of near-zero emission primary steel plants, leading to the point where industry perceptions shift to considering late mover risk in the transition more dangerous than first-mover risk. We will identify unilateral policy approaches that avoid putting clean primary steel producers at a disadvantage in international trade, and plurilateral...

Youth Assault Victimization as a Two-Generation Shock: Evidence on Parental Spillovers

When a child is the victim of a non-domestic violent assault, how do their parents respond? Using linked population-wide administrative data from New Zealand and a stacked difference-in-differences design, we show that youth assault is a two-generation shock. Over the two years following an assault, parental earnings fall by 2.2 percent and stress-related medication dispensing rises by 11 percent....

Photovoltaic Manufacturing in the EU Requires a Unified Industrial Strategy

Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity is critical for providing Europe with a steady supply of decarbonized energy at competitive prices. To ensure the supply of solar PV modules, the European Union (EU) aims to meet 40 percent of its demand with domestic products by 2030. To achieve this goal, EU Member States no longer need to base their support for PV projects solely on price under the NZIA, but can ...

Klare Rahmenbedingungen für EU-PV-Hersteller jetzt umsetzen: Interview von Thibault Deletombe

Data as a Key to Better Crisis Preparedness

For more than 40 years, SOEP has been collecting information on living conditions, health, and social factors from approximately 30,000 individuals. Based on these data, Sabine Zinn develops synthetic health data that links different information sources and enable realistic scenario modeling. These models help researchers understand human behavior during crises and assess potential impacts at an early ...

Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks

We study the role of international financial integration in buffering natural disaster shocks, using a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. Natural disasters are largely unpredictable and unrelated to the state of financial integration. We document that integration improves the absorption of such shocks: Output, consumption, and investment are significantly higher after a natural disaster ...

CBAM – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

CBAM – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Reputation Laundering

This project studies how the removal of negative online reviews through defamation claims affects firms’ digital reputation. Using data from Google Maps and comparison platforms such as Booking and Tripadvisor, we examine whether firms with removed reviews appear more favorably rated on Google relative to their ratings elsewhere. The results provide evidence of rating laundering: review removals...