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Refereed essays Web of Science
Coal continues to play an important role in the global energy sector and with the increase in international trade a global market for steam coal has developed. We investigate market structure and recent price developments with a numerical modeling approach and develop two partial equilibrium models, a quantity based model and a model additionally incorporating energy values. We compare two possible ...
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The Energy Journal
31 (2010), 4, S. 205-229
| Clemens Haftendorn, Franziska Holz
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The relationship between conflict and education has been studied before. However, previous authors have always focused strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this article examines the influence of conflict on the demand for education. It is theoretically shown that, under relatively general conditions, individuals living in a conflict area have an incentive to increase their level of education ...
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The Journal of Conflict Resolution
55 (2011), 4, S. 652-677
| Olaf J. de Groot, Idil Göksel
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DIW Discussion Papers 1026 / 2010
This paper presents an application of a mechanism that provides incentives to promote transmission network expansion in the area of the US electric system known as PJM. The applied mechanism combines the merchant and regulatory approaches to attract investment into transmission grids. It is based on rebalancing a two-part tariff in the framework of a wholesale electricity market with locational pricing. ...
2010| Juan Rosellón, Zdenka Mysliková, Eric Zenón
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Report
The SOEPnewsletter 89 (July 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 89
30.06.2010
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Press Release
DIW President Zimmermann: “Another opportunity missed at the G-20 summit in Canada.” The German economy will grow at a moderate pace through 2010 and 2011. According to the quarterly forecast released today by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German economy will grow with an average rate of 1.9 percent in 2010, and 1.7 percent in 2011. “The recovery is ...
30.06.2010
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Cristina Blanco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)AbstractGiven the lack of consensus in the literature regarding the effect of income inequality on health, this paper studies the relationship between both variables, focusing on the relative income hypotheses. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyse the effect of relative deprivation on individual self-assessed...
07.07.2010
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DIW Discussion Papers 1024 / 2010
We address investment in regulated natural gas pipelines when investment is lumpy and the demand for gas is stochastic. This is a problem that can be solved in theory as a dynamic program, but a practical solution depends on functions and parameters that are either subjective or cannot be estimated. We then reformulate the problem from the standpoint of consumers that face incomplete markets. It is ...
2010| Dagobert L. Brito, Juan Rosellón
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Press Release
Banks should diversify their investment portfolios, European think tanks urgeEuropean banks should develop more strongly diversified international investment portfolios. This would substantially reduce the risk of contagion in financial market crises, economists have urged. Their findings are included in a policy brief published today by FINESS, an EU-wide research consortium, led by DIW Berlin, the ...
14.06.2010
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DIW Discussion Papers 1013 / 2010
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of post-war reconstruction. However, we ...
2010| Cagatay Bircan, Tilman Brück, Marc Vothknecht
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ESCIRRU- Papers 26 / 2010
The study analyses the effects of transition on the amount and patterns of alcohol consumption. We test the hypothesis of how far negative experiences induced by the collapse of the Soviet Union have led to drinking in the young generation of Ukrainians. We use data coming from the Ukrainian Longitude Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to identify both determinants and patterns of alcohol consumption among young ...
2010| Alexandra Avdeenko, Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück