Short-term electricity markets are key to an efficient production by generation units. We develop a two-period model to assess different bidding formats to determine for each bidding format the optimal bidding strategy of competitive generators facing price-uncertainty. We compare the results for simple bidding, block bidding and multi-part bidding and find that even under optimal simple and block ...
Deutschland hat zwar ambitionierte Klimaziele und Planungswerke auf Basis von Kabinettsbeschlüssen, es fehlen aber gesetzliche Grundlagen, die die weitere Implementierung und Zielerreichung unterstützen können. Ein Klimaschutzgesetz, wie im Koalitionsvertrag für 2019 vorgesehen, sollte möglichst Klarheit schaffen über institutionelle Verantwortlichkeiten und Ablä...
In line with the continuously carbon-intensive consumption patterns of our societies, the steel, cement and other basic materials still used in end-use sectors and products across our economies entail 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 2/3 of German industrial emissions. To avoid these emissions, material producers and users are proposing a portfolio of options, including clean production...
1985 – The first article based on the SOEP data is published in a technical journal 1990 – More than 200 interviewers carry out the first survey in East Germany 2000 – For the first time, the SOEP youth questionnaire will also be used to interview adolescents. 2003 – SOEP researchers develop first mother-child questionnaire 2004 – Personality and developmental psychology discovers the SOEP 2008 – SOEP's ...
The SOEP was founded in 1983 under the leadership of Prof. Hans-Jürgen Krupp as a subproject of the “Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy” Collaborative Research Center, which was based at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main and Mannheim and funded by the German Research Association (DFG) since 1979. In 1983, Krupp brought the SOEP to DIW Berlin. There, he succeeded in establishing the SOEP ...
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply and the effectiveness of intrahousehold insurance in a sample of married couples, where the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure using data from the Austrian Social Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family formation, which requires careful ...
In recent years, the global community has promoted several initiatives aimed at breaking bank secrecy in tax havens. Such treaties for the exchange of information among tax offices can be effective. A treaty between country A and tax haven B reduces deposits from A in banks of B by approximately 30 percent. However, the analysis shows that tax evaders react to such treaties not by becoming honest taxpayers ...
