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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Two significant drivers of a person's financial situation in old age are pension income and costs for long-term care dependence. Both are unknown when the person makes her most important financial decisions, which makes it particularly interesting to understand her beliefs about them and how they influence her choices. In a representative survey, we elicit detailed expectations about individuals...
05.07.2023| Bruno Veltri (HU Berlin), Maximilian Blesch
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DIW Discussion Papers 2045 / 2023
As research indicates a gap between complex scientific measures of accessibility and simpler proxies used by firms, this paper analyses the impact of several market access indicators on the location decision of firms. It compares the role of inter- and intra-industry agglomeration as proxies of access with a newly developed gravity-based indicator incorporating transport distances and industry relations. ...
2023| Dennis Gaus, Georg Hirte
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DIW Weekly Report 25 / 2023
In its Federal Climate Change Act, Germany has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2045. To do so, companies from both the industrial and the service sectors must adjust their production and business practices, and financial institutions must adjust their evaluation criteria. In many cases, this requires a new strategic direction and investments in climate-neutral products, business models, ...
2023| Fernanda Ballesteros, Alexandra Hüttel, Karsten Neuhoff, Catherine Marchewitz
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
In recent years, researchers have grappled with the phenomenon that public demand for redistribution has not systematically increased in response to rising inequality. Meritocratic beliefs have been suggested as an explanation for this observation, because they can help legitimize inequalities. Past research has identified local-level inequality, segregation, or diversity as important factors for how ...
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Social Sciences
12 (2023), 7, 376, 29 S.
| Nicole Oetke, Maria Norkus, Jan Goebel
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International SOEP User Conference
The 15th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2024) this year was held at BBAW in Berlin from July 4 to July 5, 2024.
The conference provided researchers who use the SOEP (including the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and LIS/LWS data) with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with their peers. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g.,...
04.07.2024| Jutta Mata (University of Mannheim), Simon Jäger (MIT)
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Adjusting green public support programmes to green premiums can reduce public spending, yet this is challenged by uncertainty. Underfunding green technologies can delay the green transition, and overfunding them can increase transition costs. Both risks of under- and overfunding can be reduced using responsive adjustments.
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Nature Climate Change
13 (2023), S. 592-595
| Till Köveker, Olga Chiappinelli, Mats Kröger, Oliver Lösch, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein, Xi Sun
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1. The number of beneficiaries would be small due to the initially limited sacle of RE pool, this could discriminating against others.
2. Consumers outside the RE pool must expect higher prices if electricity supply to RE pool is removed from the market.
3. If the state simultaneously acts as the sole buyer and seller of long-term contracts for new wind and solar energy, liquidity could be drained ...
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DIW Discussion Papers 2041 / 2023
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average re- ductions in external damages of around 80 billion Euros. We further show that the eco-tax induced low-carbon innovation and document much stronger ...
2023| Pier Basaglia, Sophie M. Behr, Moritz A. Drupp
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Tax progressivity is central in public and political debates when questions of vertical equity are raised. Applied, structural research demands a simple way to capture it. A power function approximation delivers one parameter that captures the residual income elasticity - a summary measure of progressivity. This approximation is accurate, tractable, and interpretable, and hence immensely popular. The ...
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National Tax Journal
76 (2023), 2. S. 267-289
| Johannes König
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DIW Discussion Papers 2039 / 2023
We examine how competition affects VAT pass-through in isolated oligopolistic markets as defined by the Greek islands. Using daily gasoline prices and a difference-in-differences methodology, we investigate how changes in VAT rates are passed through to consumers in islands with different market structure. We show that pass-through increases with competition, going from 50% in monopoly to around 80% ...
2023| Lydia Dimitrakopoulou, Christos Genakos, Themistoklis Kampouris, Stella Papadokonstantaki