Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for Coal Taxes?

In this paper we investigate the introduction of an export tax on steam coal levied by an individual country (Australia), or a group of major exporting countries. The policy motivation would be twofold: generating tax revenues against the background of improvedterms-of-trade, while CO2 emissions are reduced. We construct and numerically apply a two-level game consisting of an optimal policy...

Determinants of Drinking Water Treatment and Hygiene Habits in Provincial Towns in Yemen

Why Do Women Favor In-Group Competition? Evidence from an Incentivized Choice Experiment

Productivity Growth and Its Sources: A StoNED Metafrontier Analyis of the German Electricity Generating Sector

On the Incidence of Renewable Energy Subsidies into Land Prices: Evidence from Germany

Productivity in the Electricity Retail Market: Does Ownership Matter? A Structural Production Function Approach for Germany

Job Matching on Connected Occupational and Regional Labor Markets

Collusive Effects of a Monopolist's Use of an Intermediary to Deliver to Retailers

A manufacturer contracting secretly with several downstream competitors faces an opportunism problem, preventing it from exerting its market power. In an infinitely repeated game, the opportunism problem can be relaxed. We show that the upstream firm's market power can be restored even further if the upstream firm chooses a mixed distribution system in which it makes use of an intermediary to...

Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS

Hidden Skewness: On the Difficulty of Multiplicative Compounding under Random Shocks

Hidden Skewness: On the Difficulty of Multiplicative Compounding under Random Shocks

The Role of Empirical (IO) Research in Competition Policy

The Greener, the Happier? The Effects of Urban Green and Abandoned Areas on Residential Well-Being

Why Do Women Favor In-group Competition? Evidence from an Incentivized Choice Experiment

Behavioral Effects of Gender Identity Priming: Evidence From an Incentivized Choice Experiment

Die Riester-Rente

The German Energy Transition: Political Objectives and Measures of Implementation

Energy Strategy and Policy Implementation

Die Bedeutung von Selbstregulation und Kognition für den "Subjektiven Gesundheitshorizont"

Kohortenunterschiede in der Kognition, im Wohlbefinden und psychosozialen Variablen: Befunde aus den Berliner Altersstudien