Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Wo(men) at Work? The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earnings on Women's Work Hours

This study investigates the determinants of women¿s labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner¿s wages on women¿s work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions and respond differently to changes in their partners¿ wages. In addition, this study seeks to connect the...

Choice Behavior in an Optimal Stopping Task

In this paper we examine behavior in an optimal stopping task. We derive novel theoretical predictions under different theories of dynamic behavior and then examine their empirical validity in the laboratory. We show that the well-known result that the optimal strategy for risk-neutral agents is a path-independent cut-off strategy can be generalized to the entire class of expected utility (EU)...

Information Sharing in Competitive Insurance Markets

We rationalize a special type of sharing information which can typically be found in markets for occupational disability insurances. There, firms share information about acceptances and rejections of an applicant. We set up a multiple-step signalling model with uninformed agents and endogenize competing principals' decisions to acquire information on risk types. We formalize the idea that...

Voters Prefer More Qualified Mayors, But Does It Matter for Public Finances? Evidence for Germany

Heterogeneity in Tax-Motivated Profit Shifting and Its Effects on Corporate Investment

European Electricity Grid Infrastructure Expansion in a 2050 Context

Merchant and Regulated Transmission Investment: The Case of the Baltic Sea Region

Combining Feed-in Tariffs and Tenders to Support Renewable Electricity

The Infrastructure Implications of the Energy Transformation in Europe until 2030 / 2050

The Future of Natural Gas in a Global Perspective: Resources, Trade, and Climate Constraints

National-Strategic Investment in European Electricity Transmission Capacity

Trends in the Natural Gas Industry: Prices, Contracts, and Geopolitics

Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for the US Natural Gas Market

The Double-Dividend of Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for the Australian Coal Policy?

Towards Optimal Regulation of Transmission Network Investment under Renewable Integration

Residual Load, Renewable Surplus and Storage Requirements for Renewable Integration in Germany

A key feature of the German "Energiewende" is a shift towards variable renewable power sources like wind and photovoltaics (PV). According to the medium-term scenario of the network development plan drafted by German TSOs, onshore and offshore wind could account for around 45% of gross power demand by 2032, whereas PV could contribute around 10% (NEP 2012, scenario 2032B). Afterwards, the shares...

The Role of Hedging for Carbon Markets

Current and Prospective Costs of Electricity Generation

The Benefit of Coordinating Congestion Management in Germany

How Do Marital Transitions Affect Pension Building? Comparing Women in Germany and the United States