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Weekly Report
Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as “Coal Commission”) among others are currently debating alternative pathways toward a coal phaseout ...
15.08.2018| Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei
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DIW Weekly Report 33 / 2018
Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as “Coal Commission”) among others are currently debating alternative pathways toward a coal phaseout to achieve ...
2018| Leonard Göke, Martin Kittel, Claudia Kemfert, Casimir Lorenz, Pao-Yu Oei, Christian von Hirschhausen
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DIW Discussion Papers 1753 / 2018
It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factorin determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robustquantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can havelasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, weconduct andevaluate a teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program underRandomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. ...
2018| Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt, Gill Wyness
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Related to the increased encouragement of public transport (PT) by policy-makers, over-crowding in PT has become a major issue worldwide. Whilst the impact of in-vehicle crowding on individuals' travel costs has been considered, we focus on aggregate welfare losses. We apply a Pigouvian framework to the case of subways and compute the economic cost of congestion (ECC). We combine data of the 14 metro ...
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Economics of Transportation
14 (2018), S. 1-8
| Luke Haywood, Martin Koning, Remy Prud'homme
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DIW Discussion Papers 1756 / 2018
Since the seminal paper of Hoffman et al. (1994), an entitlement effect is believed to exist in the Ultimatum Game, in the sense that proposers who have earned their role (as opposed to having it randomly allocated) offer a smaller share of the pie to their matched responder. The entitlement effect is at the core of experimental Public Choice – not just because it concerns the topics of bargaining ...
2018| Elif E. Demiral, Johanna Mollerstrom
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Press Release
According to DIW Berlin estimations, the German economy will continue on its current growth path over the next three years. This confirms the forecast from early summer that economic output will grow at a more moderate pace than previously. DIW Berlin’s forecast indicates growth of 1.8 percent for 2018, 1.7 percent for 2019, and 1.8 percent for 2020.
In contrast to the strong export performance ...
06.09.2018
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Event
Benoît Cœuré has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 1 January 2012. He is responsible for International and European Relations, Market Operations and the Oversight of Payment Systems. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) of the Bank for International Settlements, and has held this position since...
17.09.2018| Benoît Cœuré, European Central Bank
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Sustainable Finance
After a major conference on the report of the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance in Berlin, organized by DIW Berlin together with the European Commission and the "Hub for Sustainable Finance" on 22.2 in Berlin, we sat down with a few interested colleagues from various institutions in the field of sustainable finance and decided that it would be a good idea to have a "place" to discuss...
04.05.2018
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Sustainable Finance
The aim of the research meeting is an open, informal exchange in order to promote the discourse on "sustainable finance" from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our different fields of research and experience. The informal discussion in a small group allows interactive and open discussions.
Agenda
11:00-11:20 Short introduction, summary of the last meeting
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27.08.2018
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Sustainable Finance
In the context of the major Sustainable Finance Conferences in February in Berlin and March in Brussels, the VfU-UNEP-FI-Roundtable and the 2.Sustainable Finance Summit Germany in September 2018, as well as in direct exchanges between experts, a number of research questions have been identified, which would need answering in order to support the implementation of a sustainable finance policy...
17.12.2018