Members of the research group "Resource markets and policies" strengthened their cooperation with the Technical University of Norway (NTNU) in Trondheim with a visit in May 2013. Dr. Franziska Holz, Daniel Huppmann and Philipp M. Richter are researchers i.a. in the project RESOURCES and study the interactions of fossil energy resource markets and climate policies. One major focus of their ...
In the following we aim to approach the question of why, in most domains of professional and economic life, women are more vulnerable than men to becoming targets of prejudice and discrimination by proposing that one important cause of this inequality is the presence of gender stereotypes in many domains of society. We describe two approaches employed to measure gender stereotypes: An explicit questionnaire ...
This study presents comprehensive macroeconomic measures on the revenue from business taxation in Germany. A comparison of the tax base reported in tax statistics with the corporate income derived from national accounts gives hints to considerable tax base erosion. The high weight of reported tax losses underlines this result. The average implicit tax rate on corporate income was around 21 percent ...
This presentation investigates the response patterns of survey respondents who are asked for the name and address of their employer. Results are of interest for survey methodologists as information on employers is a sensitive piece of information which is difficult to ask for and which might endanger participation to surveys, especially for panel studies like the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). ...
The European climate targets until 2050 require an adaptation of the generation portfolio in terms of renewable and fossil based generation. Assumptions on the timeline of the targets and the availability and costs of generation technologies are used in energy system models to optimize the cost minimal system transformation. The results include investments in generation technologies and their national ...
