Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

An Electricity Market Model with Generation Capacity Investment under Uncertainty

This article presents an electricity dispatch model with endogenous electricity generation capacity expansion for Germany over the horizon 2035. The target is to quantify how fuel price uncertainty impacts investment incentives of thermal power plants. Results point to findings which are in line with general theory: Accounting for stochasticity increases investment levels overall and the...

How Do Taxes Affect Investment When Firms Face Financial Constraints?

This study uses a switching regression framework with known sample separation to analyze the effects of corporate income taxation on investment in case of binding and non-binding financial constraints. By employing two different sample splitting criteria, payout behavior and the ratio of liabilities to total assets, I show that the elasticity of capital to its user costs in an auto-distributed-lag...

Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: Validating a Structural Model Using a Natural Experiment

Electricity Generation and Transmission Capacity Expansion: An Application to the Central European Region

Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development

This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to deployment volumes. This paper develops an analytic model to simulate weekly installations of PV systems ?...

Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Markets and Innovation

Strategic Behavior in the Crude Oil Market: One-Stage vs. Two-Stage Oligopoly Models

A New Model for Analyzing Renewable Energy Integration in Germany

An Electricity Market Model with Generation Capacity Expansion under Uncertainty

Why Do Firms Trade Carbon Emission Permits? Evidence from the European Emission Trading Scheme

Biochar to the Point: Special Talk

Financial Transaction Tax

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on...

Money for Nothing? The Effects of Continuous Training on Subjective Job Security

Postmaterialism and Status Attainment of Young Adults

What Is Unorthodox Monetary Policy?

After the near collapse of the global financial system after the default of Lehmann Brothers money markets froze and caused the problem of the massive contagion process of a global liquidity crisis. To counter this process the Fed, the ECB and the Bank of England in particular started monetary activities summarized under the label of unorthodox monetary policies (see Muellbauer 2008). Until that...

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

Surveys in Alternative Indicators and Their Use in Economic Policy: Panel Discussion