Germany’s current government is planning to realign its energy transition. Against this backdrop, this report provides an overview of current developments in key technologies and indicators for flexibility in the electricity sector. For photovoltaics, growth appears to be leveling off, especially for rooftop installations. Onshore wind power continues to lag its target path, but this gap could close ...
This paper studies how and why anti-Irish sentiment in 19th century England spills over onto jury decisions at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court. We classify the (perceived) ethnicity of courtroom participants according to whether they have distinctly Irish or English surnames based on place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named defendants have significantly worse outcomes: juries are 3% ...
This project evaluates a major reform of Germany’s public Disability Insurance (DI) system. Since 2001, cohorts born after 1960 are no longer eligible for occupational DI, which previously granted benefits when health shocks prevented work in one’s former occupation. Instead, eligibility now requires general work disability. First, the project will use administrative microdata from the statutory...
The goal of the project is to develop an index to measure the adequacy of overall retirement provision for the working-age population. The Retirement Adequacy Index is intended to regularly inform about the state of retirement provision. In the project, we also aim to place a particular emphasis on the gender perspective. Policy has initiated a shift toward a multi-pillar system with a stronger...
The Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) promotes non-price criteria in renewable auctions. It aims to unlock green willingness-to-pay and scale up manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies in the European Union (EU). This paper builds a partial equilibrium model of the European solar module sector and investigates how renewable auction design impacts solar photo- voltaic (PV) manufacturing. First, ...
The European Union and India have agreed on a free trade agreement. Sonali Chowdhry, trade expert at DIW Berlin, comments on the significance of this agreement:
