Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Internet Movie Piracy and the Box Office

How Do Power Generators Use Their Flexibility in Adjusting Their CO2 Hedging Volume?

Secondary School Choice

Marriage or Cohabitation? The Impact of Partner Earnings on Female Labor Supply

Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Laboratory Analysis of Deferral Options under Ambiguity

Informational Opacity and Honest Certification

The Effect of His and Her Job Commitment on Couples' Relationships and Vice Versa: Watching Gender Inequalities within Couples from Different Perspectives

Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework

Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Intra-family Transfers, Remittances and Gifts: Gender Matters

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

Top down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in Twelve European Countries

Ein Modell zur Untersuchung der Integration erneuerbarer Energien

What about Coal? Interactions between Climate Policies and the Global Steam Coal Market until 2030

Because of economic growth and a strong increase in global energy demand the demand for fossil fuels and therefore also greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, although climate policy should lead to the opposite effect. The coal market is of special relevance as coal is available in many countries and often their first choice to meet energy demand. In this paper we assess possible interactions...

Subsidies for Learning in Renewable Energy Technologies under Market Power and Emission Trading

Under perfect competition on the output market, first best technology subsidies in the presence of learning by doing are justified by knowledge spill overs that are not accounted for by individual companies. First best output subsidies are thus depending directly on the learning effects and are, if applicable, positive. Considering electricity markets, a setting of imperfect competition is more...

Stationarity Changes in Long-Run Fossil Resource Prices: Evidence from Persistence Break Testing

This paper considers the question of whether changes in persistence have occurred during the long-run evolution of U.S. prices of the non-renewable energy resources crude oil, natural gas and bituminous coal. Our main contribution is to allow for a structural break when testing for a break in persistence, thus disentangling the effect of a deterministic break from that of a stochastic break and...

Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Stability: What Role for Large Banks?

This study assesses how banking sector integration and especially cross-border lending affect macroeconomic stability. I use a two-country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous banks that are hit by idiosyncratic shocks. According to the concept of granularity, idiosyncratic shocks to large firms (or: banks) do not have to cancel out under a skewed distribution of firm sizes. Given the...

Data Preparation of the New SOEP Consumption Module: Editing, Imputation and Smoothing

Input-Output Table for Germany in 1936 as New Benchmark for Economic Historical Analysis

Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda