Vorträge des DIW Berlin

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

Das Berliner Wirtschaftsmodell 2030: Debatte

Bank Size Heterogeneity and Small Business Finance

Are There Bubbles in Stock Prices? Testing for Fundamental Shocks

Can Stock Price Fundamentals Really be Captured?: Using Markov Switching in Heteroskedasticity Models to Test Identification Restrictions

Testing Structural Identifications on US Monetary Policy and Stock Prices

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Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty and Social Instability?

Kampf um Strom: die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Renewable Energy and Germany's Energie-Wende: Too Fast, too Soon, too Expensive?

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Bank Market Structures and Macroeconomic Stability: Are Low-Income Countries Special?

Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

German social security records show that intra-generational lifetime earnings inequality is about two-thirds of the corresponding inequality of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly earnings is substantial at the beginning of the life cycle, decreases afterwards and virtually vanishes after age forty. We detect a striking secular rise of intra-generational...

Wealth Distribution within Couples and Financial Decision Making

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).In married and cohabiting couples, men have, on average, 33,000 Euro more net worth than women. We look at five different sets of factors ...

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...