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Leisure Behavior of Young People: Education-Oriented Activities Becoming Increasingly Prevalent

Young people’s leisure activities are significantly different today than they were ten years ago. The obvious use of communication and entertainment electronics, such as cell phones, computers, and games consoles is only one aspect - there are also less visible changes: informal activities such as meeting with friends are being increasingly sidelined by education-oriented activities like extra-curricular ...

Summary Report SOEP Fieldwork in 2013

In this chapter, we summarize the most important features and results of the 2013 fieldwork in the various parts of the SOEP sample system. A general summary of the SOEP survey fieldwork unit at TNS Infratest was part of the 2012 wave report. We do not replicate this wave-invariant general information in this year’s chapter but instead refer to last year’s foreword (part III, p. 83 ff), which provides ...

Assessing Energy Price Induced Improvements in Efficiency of Capital in OECD Manufacturing Industries

To assess how capital stocks adapt to energy price changes, it is necessary to account for the impacts on different vintages of capital and to account separately for price-induced and autonomous improvements in the energy efficiency of capital stock. The results of econometric analysis for five manufacturing industries in 19 OECD countries between 1990 and 2005 indicate that higher energy prices resulted ...

The Estimation of Poverty-Dynamics Using Different Household Income Measures

Strategic Behaviour in Energy Markets: Advances in Complementarity and Multi-Stage Equilibrium Modelling ; Dissertation

Diese Dissertation untersucht mehrere energiewirtschaftliche Fragestellungen, in denen Marktmacht eine besondere Rolle spielt; mittels spieltheoretischer Ansätze werden die strategischen Interaktionen mathematisch formuliert und anhand numerischer Methoden Gleichgewichte der Spiele identifiziert. Der Beitrag zum wissenschaftlichen Diskurs rund um den Themenbereich Marktmacht in der Energiewirtschaft ...

An Electricity Market Model with Generation Capacity Expansion under Uncertainty

This article presents an electricity dispatch model with endogenous electricity generation capacity expansion for Germany over the horizon 2010–2035. The target is to quantify how fuel and carbon price risk impacts investment incentives of thermal power plants. We provide a framework for the evaluation of investment decisions under long-term uncertainty which helps integrating numerous scenarios in ...

Local Retailer Availability and the Demand for Fluid Milk

The 3rd Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, WZB, Humboldt University Berlin, and Technical University Berlin which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. 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...

Optimal Infrastructure Investments for Renewable Energy Integration in Germany

We analyze optimal infrastructure investments for the integration of variable renewables in the German electricity system. Using a combined dispatch, transmission, and investment model, we compare four scenarios with different investment options, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage and transmission lines. In a reference scenario of the year 2024, geographically optimized investments ...

The Flexibility of Hydroelectric Reservoir and Pumped Storage Generation: Application to Switzerland

We investigate the impact that different technical and operational model representations for hydroelectric reservoir and pumped storage power plants have on the market dispatch and annual generation patterns in a techno-economic electricity sector model. The ‘detailed’ model explicitly accounts for individual plant and reservoir capacity limitations, hydraulic interconnections within cascaded systems, ...