The slowdown in the global economy and the uncertainties caused by Brexit have affected the export-oriented German economy, which is expected to grow by only 0.5 percent this year. However, the German economy has not slid into a crisis due to marked fiscal policy stimuli and favorable developments on the labor market. Private consumption remains a mainstay of the economy; in addition, there is moderate ...
The Kick-Off is the opening ceremony for the Berlin School of Economics, with a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole. From this date onwards, the BSE will unite Berlin‘s career development programs in the economic sciences at the PhD and Postdoc level in a single and unique structure.
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that are individually found to be significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems by households but are not yet tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors; i.e. the expected costs of ...
