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DIW Discussion Papers 1751 / 2018
The use of video recordings in experimental economics has become increasingly popular. However, little attention is paid to how this might affect the composition of the participating subjects and the intended treatment effect. We make a first attempt to shed light on these issues and address them in an incentivized face-to-face tax compliance experiment. The experiment contains two dimensions; i) the ...
2018| Tim Lohse, Salmai Qari
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Externe Working Papers
We develop a multi-horizon stochastic equilibrium model for analyzing energy markets, with particular attention to infrastructure development and renewable energy policies in perfect and imperfect market structures. By decoupling short-term operational decisions feedback from long-term strategic investment decisions, the multi-horizon approach allows to consider long-term and short-term uncertainties ...
Trondheim:
NTNU,
2015,
44 S.
(Working Papers / Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies ; 2)
| Zhonghua Su, Ruud Egging, Daniel Huppmann, Asgeir Tomasgard
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This modeling comparison exercise looks at the global consequences of increased shale gas production in the U.S. and increased gas demand from Asia. We find that differences in models' theoretical construct and assumptions can lead to divergences in their predictions about the consequences of U.S. shale gas boom. In general, models find that U.S. High Shale Gas scenario leads to increased U.S. production, ...
In:
Energy Economics
60 (2016), S. 405-415
| Sonia Yeh, Yiyong Cai, Daniel Huppman, Paul Bernstein, Sugandha Tuladhar, Hillard G. Huntington
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DIW Weekly Report 32 / 2018
Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also designed with the goal of achieving environmental policy objectives. A systematic and quantitative comparison of passenger car taxation in 30 European countries shows significant differences among them. However, in almost every country, the use of vehicles with diesel engines is taxed less ...
2018| Uwe Kunert
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Press Release
In a systematic European comparison of taxes and duties on passenger cars, Germany is in the lower third – Taxes on passenger cars neither raise enough revenue nor provide sufficient incentives for less polluting passenger car traffic.
Germany needs to reform its passenger car and fuel taxation and make a gradual increase in the diesel tax a priority. This is the conclusion reached by Uwe Kunert, ...
08.08.2018
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction with functioning in key physical and social ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
116 (2019), 4, S. 634-650
| Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner, Gert G. Wagner, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This article analyses how the presence of a dominant group of voters within the electorate affects voter turnout. Theoretically, we argue that its absolute size affects turnout via increased free-riding incentives and reduced social pressure to vote within a larger dominant group. Its relative size compared to other groups within the electorate influences turnout through instrumental and expressive ...
In:
Local Government Studies
45 (2019), 5, S. 724-747
| Peter Bönisch, Benny Geys, Claus Michelsen
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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
11...
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