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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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DIW focus 10 / 2023
The German traffic light coalition began its term two years ago with ambitious energy policy goals. Halfway through the legislative period, its track record is mixed. Good progress has been made in some areas, but in others a large gap between targets and the status quo remains. The Ampel-Monitor Energiewende by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) shows where we stand today in terms ...
2023| Wolf-Peter Schill, Alexander Roth, Adeline Guéret, Felix Schmidt
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Externe Monographien
Berlin:
Humboldt-Universität Berlin,
2023,
XXV, 241 S.
| Mariza Montes de Oca Leon
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Externe Monographien
This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities with a quasi-experimental evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Leveraging multiple causal inference methods, we compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the actual and counterfactual German transport sector following the 1999 eco-tax reform and demonstrate ...
München:
CESifo,
2023,
37 S.
(CESifo Working Papers ; 10508)
| Pier Basaglia, Sophie M. Behr, Moritz A. Drupp
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines the drivers of Algeria's energy transformation as well as the cross-cutting issues and challenges in the transformation process. It suggests a framework that accelerates sustainable transformation based on the ideologies of systemic reasoning. Interviews were conducted with 20 energy experts in Algeria, along with a content analysis of policy documents, reports, and previous studies. ...
In:
Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration
8 (2023), S. 365–379
| Khadidja Sakhraoui, Albert K. Awopone, Christian von Hirschhausen, Noara Kebir, Redha Agadi
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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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Refereed essays 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 ...
In:
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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Refereed essays 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 ...
In:
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
117 (2023), 102755, 18 S.
| Marica Valente
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The transition towards decarbonized energy systems requires the expansion of renewable and flexibility technologies in power sectors. Many powerful tools exist to find optimal capacity expansion. In a stylized comparison of six models, we evaluate the capacity expansion results of basic power sector technologies. The technologies under investigation include base- and peak load power plants, electricity ...
In:
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
157 (2022), 112004, 12 S.
| Jonas van Ouwerkerk, Hans Christian Gils, Hedda Gardian, Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill, Alexander Zerrahn, Alexander Murmann, Jann Launer, Laura Torralba-Díaz, Christian Bußar