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Energy Transition Calls for High Investment

Achieving the objectives of the German governments 2010 Energy Concept and the accelerated phase-out of nuclear energy will require significant investment in restructuring energy supply. In particular, this includes investment in installations for the use of renewable energy sources in the power and heating sector, as well as in the infrastructure, such as power grids. In addition, substantial investment ...

Investment in Energy Transition Has Unequivocally Positive Impact on Economy: Six Questions to Claudia Kemfert

European Electricity Generation Post-2020: Renewable Energy Not To Be Underestimated

In its Green Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies, the European Commission calls for a framework for the future development of environment and energy policy beyond 2020. However, much like the Energy Roadmap 2050 adopted by the Commission in December 2011, the Green Paper is based on scenario assumptions that are, to a great extent, not up-to-date. The European Commission would ...

Can the banking union save the Eurozone?

Open seminar organized by the ESMT European School of Management and Technology, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Hertie School of Governance.Prof. Dr. Henrik Enderlein, Professor of Political Economy, Hertie School of Governance Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, PhD, President, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)Prof. Jörg Rocholl, PhD, President and EY...

Personality Characteristics and the Decisions to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...

Opportunities and obstacles to electrifying transport

Dynamic Aspects in Corporate Leniency Programs

VdF Best Publication Prizes 2013 awarded

On September 20, 2013 at the Happiness Colloquium of the SOEP the VdF Best Publication Prizes 2013 have been awarded. Overall eight price winners have presented.Information about the prize winners 2013

Pooling and Sharing Income within Households: A Satisfaction Approach

Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary prerequisite for computing equivalent incomes and hence all statements about the distribution of personal incomes and income poverty. However, since cohabitation without marriage is on the rise and since income pooling is less frequent among cohabiting couples, income is also pooled ...

The Intergenerational Dynamics of Social Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Europe and the United States

Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we analyze the intergenerational transmission of economic and social (dis-)advantages in Germany, the United States and Great Britain. We test with the hypotheses that the extent and the determinants of intergenerational income ...