This Data Documentation presents a dynamic investment and dispatch model for Europe named dynELMOD. The model endogenously determines investments into conventional and renewable power plants, different storage technologies including demand side management measures, and the electricity grid in five-year steps in Europe until 2050 under full or myopic foresight. The underlying electricity grid and cross-border ...
Eine zuverlässige Stromversorgung bildet das Rückgrat einer jeden modernen Volkswirtschaft und ist von außerordentlicher gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung. Die Elektrizitätswirtschaft bindet und verbraucht jedoch auch erhebliche Ressourcen in Form von Kapital, Arbeit und Energie und trägt wesentlich zur Emission von Treibhausgasen bei. Die Messung von Produktivitätsunterschieden sowie die Ermittlung von ...
Many OECD countries are currently undergoing reforms of their statutory pension schemes. In theory, a decrease of pension generosity can have a positive or negative effect on private savings - depending on the corresponding level of employment effects. Thus, it is an empirical question to determine the sign of the effect. A particular reform of the German Statutory Pension Scheme lifted the early...
This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying mechanisms of a partial retirement program in Germany on labor supply, fiscal balances and the pension income distribution. The structural approach allows to disentangle the two counteracting mechanisms that drive the employment effects of partial retirement: 1) the crowd-out from...
Jan Stede has been granted a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates him on his success!
This paper addresses the behavioral puzzle of women’s preference for competition when competitors are also women. Using a framed field experiment with 883 non-standard subjects, we show that none of the determinants of competitive behavior in general, including ability, self-confidence and risk aversion, provide a satisfying explanation for women’s substantive gender-related selection into competition. ...
This paper documents methodology underlying the construction of the integrated data base for our study on “Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems” (Who bears the tax burden in Germany? – Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler Stiftung for the project is gratefully acknowledged. ...
