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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This study provides the first evidence of the subjective well-being impacts of low emission zones (LEZs) while also undertaking a comprehensive analysis of their air quality effects. We identify causal impacts by exploiting the zones’ introduction date with difference-in-differences designs robust to staggered implementations and time-varying treatment effects. Results show air quality improvements ...
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Journal of Public Economics
227 (2023), 105014, 23 S.
| Luis Sarmiento, Nicole Wägner, Aleksandar Zaklan
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This study investigates whether public procurement mitigates or exacerbates innovative enterprises’ financial constraints. We distinguish between general and environmentally beneficial innovative enterprises. Theory suggests that the treatment effects of public procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We test this theory ...
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Small Business Economics
(2023), im Ersch. [Online first: 2023-07-24]
| Dorothea Schäfer, Andres Stephan, Sören Fuhrmeister
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DIW Weekly Report 22 / 2023
In October 2023, the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a part of the reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), will come into effect. Currently, energy-intensive industries do not need to purchase all of the necessary EU ETS allowances on the market to remain globally competitive, as the remaining allowances are freely allocated to them. The CBAM plans to gradually replace ...
2023| Robin Sogalla
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Diskussionspapiere 2041 / 2023
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average re- ductions in external damages of around 80 billion Euros. We further show that the eco-tax induced low-carbon innovation and document much stronger ...
2023| Pier Basaglia, Sophie Behr, Moritz A. Drupp
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many countries plan to massively expand wind power and solar photovoltaic capacities. These variable renewable energy sources require additional flexibility in the power sector. Both geographical balancing enabled by interconnection and electricity storage can provide such flexibility. In a 100% renewable energy scenario of twelve central European countries, we investigate ...
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iScience
26 (2023), 7, 107074
| Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill
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DIW Weekly Report 23 / 2023
Despite the easing of prices on the energy markets, private households continue to be burdened by elevated prices. The planned increase the planned increase in the carbon price for transport and heating will raise the burden on private households even further. These additional costs are unequally distributed and have a regressive effect, as poor households must spend much more relative to their net ...
2023| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Lars Felder, Peter Haan
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Diskussionspapiere 2033 / 2023
This study examines whether central banks can combat inflation that is caused by rising energy prices. By using a high-frequency event study and a Structural Vector Autoregression, we find evidence that the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve (Fed) are capable of doing so by affecting domestic and global energy prices. This “energy-price channel” of monetary policy plays an important ...
2023| Gökhan Ider, Alexander Kriwoluzky, Frederik Kurcz, Ben Schumann
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Energy system models are used for policy decisions and technology designs. If not carefully used, models give implausible outputs and mislead decision-making. One implausible effect is “unintended storage cycling”, which is observable as simultaneous storage charging and discharging. Methods to remove such misleading effects exist, but are computationally inefficient and sometimes ineffective. Through ...
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iScience
26 (2023), 1, 105729, 19 S.
| Maximilian Parzen, Martin Kittel, Daniel Friedrich, Aristides Kiprakis
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DIW Berlin - Politikberatung kompakt 187 / 2023
2023| Lars Handrich, Nadiya Mankovska, Frank Meißner, Maria Polugodina, Oleksandr Diachuk, Roman Podolets, Andrii Semeniuk, Andrea Bassi, Georg Pallaske
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Using machine learning methods in a quasi-experimental setting, I study the heterogeneous effects of introducing waste prices - unit prices on household unsorted waste disposal - on waste demands and municipal costs. Using a unique panel of Italian municipalities with large variation in prices and observables, I show that waste demands are nonlinear. I find evidence of constant elasticities at low ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
117 (2023), 102755, 18 S.
| Marica Valente