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Refereed essays Web of Science
Colombia faces several challenges to secure a reliable, affordable, and climate-friendly energy supply. Persistently low reserve-to-production ratios in oil and gas, together with advancing climate change, are putting the country’s energy system at risk. Heavily relying on hydro-power, Colombia’s electricity system will become more vulnerable with extreme weather patterns such as El Niño. This paper ...
In:
Renewable Energy
148 (2020), S. 1266-1279
| Andrea Ruíz López, Alexandra Krumm, Lukas Schattenhofer, Felipe Corral Montoya, Nora Oberländer, Pao-Yu Oei
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Conference in Bremen, June, 16th, 2020 and Quarterly Journal of Economic Research (DIW Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung)
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Advances in payment technologies have considerably extended the way how we pay for transactions. While the majority of financial transactions has been even traditionally done by the means of non-cash (e.g. equity payments in mergers & acquisitions), nowadays ...
05.03.2020| Dorothea Schäfer
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) provides 3D-Building models for Germany. The data come in a City-GML (geographical markup language) format, locating every building throughout Germany and providing information such as its ground plan, height, and the building’s purpose. I will provide an overview on the data, its coverage and limitations, as they are available for...
11.03.2020| Hans Walter Steinhauer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the macroeconomic effects of unconventional monetary policy in the euro area using structural vector autoregressions, identified with external instruments. The instruments are based on the common unexpected variation in euro area sovereign yields for different maturities on policy announcement days. We first show that expansionary monetary surprises are effective at lowering public and private ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
18 (2020), 1, S. 202-231
| Michael Hachula, Michele Piffer, Malte Rieth
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DIW Discussion Papers 1858 / 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks differently depending upon the characteristics of the source countries from which they emigrated. Using ...
2020| Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer, Alexander Willén
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper focuses on the identification of the causal relationship between central banks' supervisory guidance and individual bank stability. We propose and test the hypothesis that this causal relationship is mediated by the degree to which banks comply with their central bank's corporate governance recommendations. Specifically, we exploit the fact that there is considerable cross-country heterogeneity ...
In:
Emerging Markets Review
43 (2020), 100694, 19 S.
| Samuel Mutarindwa, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan
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Externe Working Papers
We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries and the only choice they make is whether they want to play out the lotteries independently or with perfect positive correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other effect than preventing outcome inequality. We implement the method in a survey in rural Thailand as well as a supplemental ...
Munich:
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190,
2019,
50 S.
(Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; 185)
| Melanie Koch,Lukas Menkhoff, Ulrich Schmidt
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Externe Working Papers
Household indebtedness is rising worldwide. This study investigates one possible driver of this increase that is rooted in the theory of permanent income: high income expectations. We collect data from an emerging country, Thailand, as (over-) indebtedness in markets with incomplete financial infrastructure and social security can be devastating. Furthermore, our sample of rural households is exposed ...
Munich:
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190,
2019,
55 S. : Anh.
(Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; 200)
| Theres Klühs, Melanie Koch, Wiebke Stein
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health claims data of the German Social Health ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
70 (2020), 102256, 13 S.
| Jan Marcus, Simon Reif, Amelie Wuppermann, Amélie Rouche
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Externe Working Papers
A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we perform a lab experiment designed to study the effects of social image concerns and peer information on consumption choices that can be financed through debt taking. We find that having to announce one's ...
Munich:
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190,
2019,
27, XXV S.
(Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; 227)
| Antonia Grohmann, Melanie Koch