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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
Scrap availability limits how quickly global steel production can decarbonize. This paper shows that a border carbon adjustment can eliminate classic import carbon leakage but triggers resource shuffling: as regulated regions demand more of the cleaner, scrap-based steel, unregulated regions shift towards dirtier one. I develop a dynamic trade model with three steel production routes and...
06.08.2026| Antonia Kurz
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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
Coping with prolonged periods of low availability of wind and solar power, also referred to as renewable energy droughts or "Dunkelflaute'', emerges as a key challenge for realizing decarbonized energy systems based on renewable energy sources. Here we characterize extreme European droughts and investigate the role of long-duration electricity storage and geographical balancing in dealing with...
03.09.2026| Martin Kittel
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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
I study optimal implementation of climate targets in a model with distortionary fiscal policy, learning-by-doing, and directed technical change. The key mechanism is that fiscal constraints link innovation policy to labor allocation, creating a tension between directing research and directing learning-by-doing. Analytically, I show that learning-bydoing shapes the effectiveness of carbon...
01.10.2026| Sonja Dobkowitz
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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
This study examines whether receiving anticipatory cash transfers during an extreme winter affects households’ demand for index-based livestock insurance. We exploit a randomized field experiment conducted during the 2020/21 winter disaster in western Mongolia and combine household panel survey data with administrative insurance records. We do not find evidence of charity hazard: the estimated...
04.03.2027| Kati Krähnert (RUB)
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Research Platform
Meeting summaries
October 2025, online: Hedging Locational Price Risk under LMP – Experiences from North America
August 2025, Berlin: Is electricity market reform necessary?
July 2025, Brussels: Local Market Places: market design options
June 2025, online: Congestion Management with Locational Marginal Pricing – First-Hand Experience from North America
March 2025: Local Marketplaces
June 2024, Berlin: ...
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Wissenschaftsplattform
Key publications
Events
The Climate Friendly Materials Platform analyses the transformation of basic material production and use to achieve carbon neutrality. It brings together researchers from leading think tanks and universit ies to enhance Europe’s analytic understanding of how individual instruments can be implemented and combined into a coherent policy package. Activities are coordinated ...
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
Individuals hold normative ideas about the just distribution of goods and burdens within a social aggregate. These normative ideas guide the evaluation of existing inequalities and refer to four basic principles: (1) Equality stands for an equal distribution of rewards and burdens. While the principle of (2) need takes individual contributions into account, (3) equity suggests a distribution based ...
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Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
4 (2022), 11, 13 S.
| Jule Adriaans, Marie Fourré
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DIW Weekly Report 50 / 2025
The German economy has stabilized in the current year and is looking ahead to a fiscal policy-supported upturn starting next year. Since the fall, an expansion in public demand has been providing important economic impetus. The private sector, on the other hand, has so far been more subdued. Trade policy uncertainties, high production costs, and structural weaknesses are causing particular concern ...
2025| Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Guido Baldi, Nina Maria Brehl, Hella Engerer, Angelina Hackmann, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Frederik Kurcz, Laura Pagenhardt, Jan-Christopher Scherer, Teresa Schildmann, Hannah Magdalena Seidl, Ruben Staffa, Kristin Trautmann, Jana Wittich
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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
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08.01.2026
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Personnel news
Sascha dos Santos and his co-authors were honored for their contribution to the European Sociological Review entitled "Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK" by the interdisciplinary jury of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) as one of this year's two winning teams of the ...
16.12.2025