Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Uncertainty Shocks and Non-fundamental Debt Crises: An Ambiguity Approach

Inequality and Defined Benefit Pensions When Life Expectancy Is Heterogeneous

Personality Traits, Subjective Learning, and Entrepreneurial Decision Making

Long-Term Care Reform and the Labor Supply of Household Members: A Difference-in-Differences Approach

Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

We investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential well-being in Germany, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a unique novel panel data set on more than 20,000 wind turbines for the time period between 2000 and 2012. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), we calculate the proximity between households and the nearest wind turbine...

Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Language Skills

The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices

Germany changed renewable remuneration for wind power from a fixed Feed-In Tariff (FIT) to a floating Market Premium Scheme (MPS) in 2012. One aim of this adjustment was to better align the supply of generated wind electricity with the demand for it, e.g. through more system-friendly wind turbine technology choices. In energy systems with a high share of variable renewable energies, such turbines...

The Market Value of Energy Efficiency in Buildings and the Mode of Tenure

Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossile fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investments are too low in the light of the...

How Reliable Are Incidence Estimates Based on Cross-Sectional Distributions? Evidence from Simulations and Linked Employer-Employee Data

Offset Credits in the EU Emissions Trading System: A Firm-Level Evaluation of Transaction Costs

Peer Effects in Labour Supply: Evidence from Marginal Employment

Voting for Inefficiency

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...