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DIW Discussion Papers 2156 / 2026
Locational marginal pricing (LMP) provides efficient locational dispatch and investment signals but requires a complementary congestion hedging instrument to function effectively. This paper investigates how exposure to locational price differences is managed in North American nodal electricity markets through the implementation of financial transmission rights (FTRs). Drawing on insights from 15 industry ...
2026| Leon Stolle, Jonas Boeschemeier, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Karsten Neuhoff
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Research Project
The project examines the development of markups in the construction sector against the backdrop of existing strucutral issues and the planned public investment initiative amounting to €500 billion. Inter alia, construction prices have increased significantly more strongly than overall consumer prices since 2010, while labor productivity has declined markedly over the same period.
This opposing...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Transformation of the Energy Industry
Resource and Environmental Markets
Transport Economics
In the Department of Energy , Transport and Environment , there are two research areas " Transformation of the Energy Industry " and " Resource and Environmental Markets ". In addition , research is carried out on the topic of " transport ...
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
The economics of crime literature dates back primarily to Becker’s (1968) economic model of crime, which put forward a theory of rational individual decision making to explain when individuals commit crime and the optimal level of crime in society. In the early-mid 1990s, an empirical literature took off – largely taking advantage of aggregate data and panel data methods – to test the economic...
20.10.2026| Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)
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Externe Working Papers
This paper examines the factors that influence the persistence of inflation following energy price shocks. Although the current oil price shock is economically significant, it is less likely to generate persistent inflationary pressures than the energy crisis of 2022– 23, as European gas markets remain relatively stable. Nevertheless, elevated geopolitical uncertainty and households’ recent inflation ...
Bruxelles:
European Parliament,
2026,
31 S.
(Monetary Dialogue Papers ; June 2026)
| Kerstin Bernoth, Alexander Kriwoluzky
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SOEPpapers 1238 / 2026
Heating-expenditure profiles over a residential spell vary systematically with aggregate gas price environments. Using 30 years of German SOEP panel data with 16,055 residential spells among renter households, this paper estimates a negative cross-derivative of log heating and hot-water expenditures per square meter with respect to residence duration and the log gas price index (δ = -0.0045, ...
2026| Tilman Schaefer
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This project studies how the removal of negative online reviews through defamation claims affects firms’ digital reputation. Using data from Google Maps and comparison platforms such as Booking and Tripadvisor, we examine whether firms with removed reviews appear more favorably rated on Google relative to their ratings elsewhere. The results provide evidence of rating laundering: review removals...
01.07.2026| Themistoklis Kampouris, DIW Berlin
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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant and intellectually lively...
18.09.2026| Luis Cabral (NYU), Marleen Marra (KU Leuven), Z. Eddie Ning (UNC-Chapel Hill), Dongsoo Shin (SCU), Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin/UCPH)
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DIW Discussion Papers 2170 / 2026
We examine the aggregate effects of government spending and tax changes in a monetary union. We show theoretically that government consumption and government investment shocks have multipliers above 1, and consumption tax and income tax shocks have multipliers below 1. We test the predictions on quarterly euro area data, identifying the four fiscal shocks in a panel structural vector autoregression ...
2026| Gökhan Ider, Malte Rieth
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DIW Discussion Papers 2169 / 2026
How do labor demand shocks affect workforce diversity in the absence of targeted diversity policies? A conceptual framework illustrates the potential trade-off between the demographic and quality composition of a workforce when there is a positive labor demand shock. Exploiting the German reunification as a natural experiment, we analyze the academic labor market where nearly all social sciences professors ...
2026| Anna Bindler, Barbara Boelmann, Lena Janys and Luisa H. Santiago Wolf