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Refereed essays Web of Science
A shortage of affordable housing can be exacerbated by wars, natural disasters, or rising demand. In response, governments impose rent control, capping rents. This policy has been used on a large scale since World War I and has gained new popularity, with rent brakes introduced in Germany, France, Ireland, and Spain between 2015 and 2023, and with the strengthening of rent control in Austria and the ...
In:
Cliometrica
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-04-25]
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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Workshop
The annual Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History (WIMFEH) is organized by the DIW Berlin and the University of Bonn. The aim is to bring together female academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of Macroeconomics, Finance, and Economic History.
07.05.2026| Kalina Manova, Cecilia Parliatore
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Sector coupling (SC), the integration of energy vectors and end-use sectors, is increasingly central to the net-zero transition but remains conceptually fragmented. This fragmentation causes modeling inconsistencies, hinders cross-study comparison, and undermines energy policy coordination. We address this gap through a structured mapping of existing definitions, categorizing them along three dimensions, ...
In:
Applied Energy
410 (2026), 127550, 25 S.
| Nishant Tyagi, Alexander Roth, Anibal Sanjab, Erik Delarue
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Variable renewable energy droughts, so called Dunkelflaute events, emerge as a challenge for climateneutral energy systems based on variable renewables. Here we characterize European drought events for on- and offshore wind power, solar photovoltaics, and renewable technology portfolios, using 38 historic weather years and an advanced identification method. Their characteristics heavily depend on the ...
In:
Communications Earth & Environment
7 (2026), 242, 17 S.
| Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
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DIW Discussion Papers 2159 / 2026
Does increased legal infrastructure empower victims to leave abusive relationships? Structural barriers often prevent victims of intimate partner violence from seeking help, with two-thirds of female victims in Europe neither reporting incidents nor accessing support. I study Germany’s 2002 Act on Protection against Violence, which introduced residence bans in shared households and temporarily awarded ...
2026| Clara Schäper
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Extensive evidence suggests that war-related trauma negatively affects health, yet its long-term and transgenerational effects on psychological and physical adjustment remain poorly understood. This study examines whether individuals who experienced greater war exposure in early childhood—specifically variation in bombardment intensity across German municipalities during the Second World War—show lower, ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026), im Ersch
| Theresa M. Entringer, Theresa M. Entringer, Christoph Halbmeier, Laura Buchinger, Anne K. Reitz
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EVU / KLI Brown Bag Seminar
Abstract: Electricity markets are increasingly shaped by uncertainty in residual demand due to renewable expansion. This weakens the disciplining role of forward markets and amplifies the potential for market power in spot pricing. Understanding this mechanism is essential for informed market design in the context of growing intermittency and structural transformation of energy systems.
15.01.2026| Paula Prakash
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EVU / KLI Brown Bag Seminar
This work presents a multi-stage stochastic optimization model to analyze price dynamics and reliability of supply in a 100% renewable power system. The stochastic framework captures uncertainty arising from the intermittency of weather-dependent renewable energy sources and compares three market design options for a future fully renewable German electricity market: an energy-only market without...
19.03.2026| Maria Krzywnicka
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EVU / KLI Brown Bag Seminar
This paper identifies a risk-hedging mechanism we coin the "dirty self-hedge" and analyzes how it affects financing costs of green industrial investments. The dirty self-hedge occurs in basic materials production when exclusively conventional, emission-intensive producers can pass on input price shocks to final product prices. They thus have a natural hedge for their profit margins against input...
16.04.2026| Leon Stolle, Jonas Jungehülsing
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Publication
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13.03.2026| Elisa Grabas