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This paper analyses whether exporting firms are less CO2 emission-intensive than non-exporting competitors. It exploits a novel and unique dataset for Germany, a major exporting country. Due to the direct link between CO2 emissions and fuels consumed, we argue that it is necessary to employ a production function framework to consistently analyse CO2 emission intensity. We show that such an approach ...
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European Economic Review
98 (2017), S. 373-391
| Philipp M. Richter, Alexander Schiersch
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We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007–2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%. This significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have greater market power because customers are less willing to switch, is only 50%, it increases to 70% in the competitive ...
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European Economic Review
98 (2017), S. 354-372
| Tomaso Duso, Florian Szücs
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This paper provides a literature review on wind power and externalities from multiple perspectives. Specifically, the economic rationale behind world-wide wind power deployment is to mitigate negative externalities of conventional electricity technologies, notably emissions from fossil fuels. However, wind power entails externalities itself. Wind turbines can lower quality of human life through noise ...
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Ecological Economics
141 (2017), S. 245-260
| Alexander Zerrahn
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In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims at investigating the longitudinal effects of skill outcomes over the life course and the development of the key skills assessed in PIAAC. Moreover, additional and alternative background information ...
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Large-Scale Assessment in Education
5 (2017), 11 S.
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Claus Carstensen, Jürgen Schupp
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Socioeconomic status (SES) and health during childhood have been consistently observed to be associated with health in old age in many studies. However, the exact mechanisms behind these two associations have not yet been fully understood. The key challenge is to understand how childhood SES and health are associated. Furthermore, data on childhood factors and life course mediators are sometimes unavailable, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
31 (2017), S. 1-10
| Eduwin Pakpahan, Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
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The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in spillovers) and flight-to-quality patterns, exploiting the heteroskedasticity of intraday changes in bond yields for identification. The paper finds that euro ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
70 (2017), S. 26-44
| Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher
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Lifespan research has long been interested in how contexts shape individual development. Using the separation and later reunification of Germany as a kind of natural experiment we examine whether and how living and dying in the former East or West German context has differentially shaped late-life development of well-being. We apply multi-level growth models to annual reports of life satisfaction collected ...
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International Journal of Behavioral Development
41 (2017), 1, S. 115-126
| Nina Vogel, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner
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The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of a Russian export disruption. Lately, however, the Netherlands have suffered from a series of earthquakes that are related to the natural gas production in the major ...
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Energy Economics
64 (2017), S. 520-529
| Franziska Holz, Hanna Brauers, Philipp M. Richter, Thorsten Roobek
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This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence, exploiting a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment to identify causal effects: between 2001 and 2007, years at academic-track high school were reduced by one, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. First, I exploit the variation over time and ...
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Labour Economics
47 (2017), S. 216-231
| Sarah Dahmann
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When designing stated-choice experiments modellers may consider offering respondents an “indifference” alternative to avoid stochastic choices when utility differences between alternatives are perceived as too small. By doing this, the modeller avoids adding white noise to the data and may gain additional information. This paper proposes a framework to model discrete choices in the presence of indifference ...
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Journal of Choice Modelling
22 (2017), S. 13-23
| Francisco J. Bahamonde Birke, Isidora Navarro, Juan de Dios Ortúzar