At the proposal of the Presidium of the Leopoldina and of the Standing Committee of Leopoldina, acatech and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Gert G. Wagner was appointed as a member of the Leopoldina's Working Group "Scientific and Socio-Political Importance of Population-Based Longitudinal Studies." The Leopldina was appointed as the German National Academy of Sciences ...
Knut Wenzig has been working on the data and metadata management team in the Research Data Center SOEP since February. Knut has a Diplom degree in social sciences and worked previously in the National Educational Panel Survey (NEPS, University of Bamberg), where he was responsible for documentation and jointly responsible for development of a metadata system. His main field of interest is in metadata-driven ...
Simon Kühne joined the SOEP as a doctoral student in mid-February and is working in the area of survey research on the SAW project "SOEP-REC-LINK" with the IAB-SOEP migration sample. Simon Kühne studied sociology and completed his master’s degree in survey methodology in January at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Alongside his studies, Simon Kühne worked in the Chair of Empirical ...
Anita Kottwitz began working as a research associate on the project “Household and Family Structures as a Context for Employment Trajectories” (Project AP11 in the soeb3 research association) in mid-February. Anita is a doctoral student at the international Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE) and will complete her doctoral studies this summer.
Assessing and quantifying the impacts of technological, economic, and policy shifts in the global energy system requires large-scale numerical models. We propose a dynamic multi-fuel market equilibrium model that combines endogenous fuel substitution within demand sectors and in power generation, detailed infrastructure capacity constraints and investment, as well as strategic behaviour and market ...
The impact of environmental regulation on technology diffusion and innovations is studied using a unique data set of German residential buildings. We analyze how energy efficiency regulations, in terms of minimum standards, affects energy-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces innovation in the residential-building industry. The data used consists of a large sample of German apartment ...
We endogenize asset liquidity in a dynamic general equilibrium model with search frictions on asset markets. In the model, asset liquidity is tantamount to the ease of issuance and resaleability of private financial claims, which is driven by investors' participation on the search market. Limited resaleability of private claims creates a role for liquid assets, such as government bonds or fiat money, ...
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using (panel) cointegration techniques. The existence of cointegration between oil revenues, GDP and investment ...
