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DIW Discussion Papers 1880 / 2020
Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet. The U.S. Energy Information Administration as well as most models of North American energy markets depict ...
2020| Christian Hauenstein, Franziska Holz
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In later life, social ties become increasingly important for one’s mental health. In this study, we test whether exogamous unions, in which one of the partner is migrant and one native, affect older individual’s social networks, and whether the association between exogamy and mental health operates through social networks. We hypothesize that immigrants gain social...
17.07.2020| Chia Liu, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & University of St. Andrews
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DIW Weekly Report 28/29 / 2020
The European Green Deal, initiated by the EU Commission, is a package of measures aimed at decarbonization and sustainable economic development with the goal of making the European Union climate neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, the emission reductions target must be increased from 40 percent to 65 percent compared to 1990 levels, as the model calculations in this Weekly Report show. Fossil and ...
2020| Karlo Hainsch, Leonard Göke, Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper provides the first comprehensive review of the empirical and theoretical literature on the determinants of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. Our focus is on the two-input constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function. We start by presenting four concise observations that summarize the empirical literature on the estimation of σ. Motivated by these observations, ...
In:
Journal of Economic Surveys
34 (2020), 4, S. 847-875
| Michael Knoblach, Fabian Stöckl
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Externe Monographien
In recent years, the phenomenon of common ownership by institutional investors has sparked considerable debate among scholars about its impact on competition and companies’ corporate governance. This study analyses some specific features of common ownership by institutional investors in the European banking sector. It also examines closely the tension between competition policy and corporate governance ...
Brussels:
European Parliament,
2020,
110 S.
| Simona Frazzani, Kletia Noti, Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Jo Seldeslachts, Albert Banal Estaño, Nuria Boot, Carlo Angelici
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Combined heat and power (CHP) can achieve fuel efficiencies of up to 90% and is thus considered as economically advantageous and ecologically sound compared to uncoupled power and heat generation. This advantage is exploited only if CHP plants are operated as much as possible at their optimal operation point. Increasing penetration by variable renewable energy sources and more flexible technologies ...
In:
Applied Energy
267 (2020), 114727, 17 S.
| Andreas Bloess
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Policymakers have implemented a wide range of non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight the spread of COVID-19. Variation in policies across jurisdictions and over time strongly suggests a difference-in-differences (DD) research design to estimate causal effects of counter-COVID measures. We discuss threats to the validity of these DD designs and make recommendations about how researchers can avoid ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
14 (2020), 2, S. 153-158
| Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Jan Marcus
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study introduces a new international longitudinal database of governmental rental market regulations. The regulations are measured using binary variables based on a thorough analysis of real-time, country-specific legislation. Three major restrictive policies are considered: rent control, protection from restriction, and housing rationing. The database covers 101 countries and states between 1910 ...
In:
Housing Policy Debate
30 (2020), 6, S. 994-1015
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
In order to facilitate novel user's access to the rich data-source of the SOEP, we will host two online-workshop series in August and November.
The aim of the workshop is to familiarize novel users with the content and structure of the dataset, its potentials for social-scientific research and accompanying documentation matieral. Practical examples of data management will be discussed. The workshop ...
01.07.2020
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Report
In order to facilitate novel user's access to the rich data-source of the SOEP, we will host two online-workshop series in August and November.
The aim of the workshop is to familiarize novel users with the content and structure of the dataset, its potentials for social-scientific research and accompanying documentation matieral. Practical examples of data management will be discussed. The workshop ...
01.07.2020| Sandra Bohmann