The deployment of battery-powered electric bus systems within the public transportation sector plays an important role to increase energy efficiency and to abate emissions. Rising attention is given to bus systems using fast charging technology. This concept requires a comprehensive infrastructure to equip bus routes with charging stations. The combination of charging infrastructure and bus batteries ...
Potable water supply in Germany is highly fragmented. A consolidation of the industry could, therefore, lead to lower cost of water supply and price savings for the customers. In this paper we estimate a total cost function for potable water supply based on a unique sample of German water utilities observed between 2004 and 2010. Newly available data allows for a detailed cost modeling approach. Capital ...
To begin the process of appointing the next generation of leadership for the SOEP, a job advertisement for the position of Director of the SOEP has been published. The new SOEP Director should, if possible, begin on October 1, 2017.
To describe the SOEP-LEE data, which are available in the DSZ-BO Bielefeld, we provide the following documents: Erhebungsinstrumente und Datenkodierung der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 304 Methodenbericht der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 305 Datenhandbuch der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen ...
Data from the first wave of the study PIAAC-L have been released on March 31st 2016. PIAAC-L is a joint project of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin, and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). In 2014, around 4,000 people in Germany between the ages of 18 and 67 who had previously taken part in PIAAC 2012 (Programme ...
In the latest Spotlight, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher explains why helicopter money offers the possibility to “circumvent” the banking system and make loans and funding directly available to households and private companies, which would help the ECB to fulfill their price stability mandate again. Video
In the latest Spotlight, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher explains why helicopter money offers the possibility to “circumvent” the banking system and make loans and funding directly available to households and private companies, which would help the ECB to fulfill their price stability mandate again.
