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Modeling a Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage Infrastructure for Europe

In this paper, we develop a model to analyze the economics of carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) in the wake of expected rising CO2 prices. We present a scalable mixed integer, multiperiod, welfare-optimizing network model for Europe, called CCTS-Mod. The model incorporates endogenous decisions on carbon capture, pipeline and storage investments, as well as capture, flow and injection quantities ...

Spillover Effects of Local Human Capital Stock on Adult Obesity: Evidence from German Neighborhoods

This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on individual body weight, with the results revealing small yet significant human capital spillover effects. Among ...

The Three Domains Structure of Energy-Climate Transitions

This paper argues that the development of energy systems rests on a combination of three different domains of socio-economic processes and associated modes of decision-making. For shorthand these are termed ‘satisficing’, ‘optimising’, and ‘transforming’ domains, with corresponding underpinnings found in behavioural, neoclassical, and evolutionary economics respectively. Each domain operates at different ...

Is Globalization Reducing the Ability of Central Banks to Control Inflation? In-Depth Analysis

Productivity in Electricity Retail after Market Liberalisation: Analysing the Effects of Ownership and Firm's Governance Structure

This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service production function for the retail sector is derived with labour and external services as the main inputs. A structural ...

Fifty Shades of State: Quantifying Housing Market Regulations in Germany

The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of housing policy are considered: Rent controls, tenant protection, rationing of housing, and fostering of social housing. Based on a thorough analysis of federal and regional legislation, for each class, an index is constructed, increasing in degree of regulation. The average of class-specific ...

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2016

Big data is transforming the world we live in. The instant availability of information impacts how individuals consume, how businesses thrive or fail, how society makes scientific discoveries, as well as how governments design and implement informed policies. At a pace and scale unanticipated 20 years ago, information technology is enabling consumers globally. Uncountable services make use of a...

Annual Report on European SMEs: 2012/2013. A Recovery on the Horizon?

Turning Point: Decoupling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Economic Growth

Damit Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel weltweit greifen, ist es unerlässlich, Wirtschaftswachstum so umzugestalten, dass es weniger von fossilen Rohstoffen und den damit verbundenen Treibhausgasen (THG) abhängt. Das Jahr 2014 war das erste seit Jahrzehnten, in dem global die Wirtschaft wuchs und die THG-Emissionen der Energiebranche dennoch sanken. In der vorliegenden Studie soll versucht werden, diese ...

SOEP 2015 – Erhebungsinstrumente 2015 (Welle 32) des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels: Personenfragebogen, Altstichproben