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Refereed essays Web of Science
Like many other countries, Germany has defined goals to reduce its CO2-emissions following the Paris Agreement of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP). The first successes in decarbonizing the electricity sector were already achieved under the German Energiewende. However, further steps in this direction, also concerning the heat and transport sectors, have stalled. This paper describes three possible ...
In:
Energies
12 (2019), 15, 2988, 33 S.
| Hans-Karl Bartholdsen, Anna Eidens, Konstantin Löffler, Frederik Seehaus, Felix Wejda, Thorsten Burandt, Pao-Yu Oei, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
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DIW Weekly Report 31 / 2019
The efficiency of the German economy is powered by its knowledge-intensive industrial and services sectors. Yet the use of knowledge capital to drive innovation and productivity in Germany is rather low compared to other European countries and the United States. Germany is clearly lagging behind, especially in the services sector. The same applies to the industrial sector, where German businesses are ...
2019| Heike Belitz, Martin Gornig
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DIW Weekly Report 31 / 2019
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, in the euro area investment is still below the pre-crisis level. Public and private investment growth is so weak that capital per worker (capital intensity) has virtually remained constant. An increase in public investment activity could ultimately stimulate private investment. Estimates for the euro area show that an increase in public investment by one billion ...
2019| Marius Clemens, Marius Goerge, Claus Michelsen
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Personnel news
Pauline Affeldt, who works at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Merger Control" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel (Technische Universität Berlin).We ...
30.07.2019
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Report
The eighth conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) was held in Zagreb, Croatia, from July 15 to 19, 2019. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb.
As at previous ESRA conferences, a number of SOEP staff members presented their research findings and applications of new survey methods in different SOEP samples, and some chaired ...
30.07.2019| Christine Kurka
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Datenangebote
The RDC-BO at DIW Berlin is an archive for business and organizational data. It archives data and offers data sets for secondary analysis. Also the RDC-BO ensures a long-term archiving und sustainable usability of the data. Depending on privacy requirements of the data the data access is possible via download, scientific-use file, remote data processing or onsite use.
Furthermore, the RDC offers ...
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The morphology of today’s cities is the result of historic urban developments and on-going urban transformation resulting in complex urban spatial structures. While functionally as well as spatially, cities are structured into sub-units such as the city center, business districts, residential areas or industrial and commercial zones, their precise localization in the geographic space is sometimes difficult. ...
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Environment and Planning / B
48 (2020), 2, S. 265–279
| Michael Wurm, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner, Matthias Weigand, Stefan Dech, Hannes Taubenböck
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Lifespan theory posits that socio-historical contexts shape individual development. Inline with this proposition, cohort differences favoring later-born cohorts have beenwidely documented for cognition and health. However, little is known about historicalchange in how key resources of psychosocial functioning such as control beliefsdevelop in old age. We pooled data from three independent samples: ...
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Psychology and Aging
34 (2019), 8, S. 1090-1108
| Denis Gerstorf, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Jacqui Smith, Hans-Werner Wahl, Oliver Schilling, Ute Kunzmann, Jelena S. Siebert, Martin Katzorreck, Peter Eibich, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
According to the 2015 Paris Agreement, a long-term goal is the commitment to “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.” Reconciling climate change objectives and financial flows is an enormous challenge in the 21st century. States in general and Germany in particular have various instruments at their disposal to initiate ...
In:
Green Finance
1 (2019), 3, S. 237-248
| Claudia Kemfert, Sophie Schmalz
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Externe Monographien
Bayesian empirical macroeconomic models are excellent tools for prediction and structural analysis. The use of a prior distribution facilitates model averaging, allows for structural identification of multiple time series models and makes estimation of high-dimensional models feasible. However, prior distributions need to be chosen carefully in order to accurately reflect the researcher's beliefs before ...
Berlin:
FU Berlin,
2019,
192, XXXVII S.
| Martin Bruns