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Diskussionspapiere 1313 / 2013
This article proposes a two-stage oligopoly model for the crude oil market. In a game of several Stackelberg leaders, market power increases endogenously as the spare capacity of the competitive fringe goes down. This effect is due to the specific cost function characteristics of extractive industries. The model captures the increase of OPEC market power before the financial crisis and its drastic ...
2013| Daniel Huppmann
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Externe Monographien
In this paper, the authors construct country-specific chronologies of house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q12009:Q4. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of fundamental and filter approaches. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is the one providing the highest concordance between these two techniques. In addition, the authors suggest an early warning ...
Kiel:
IfW,
2012,
23 S.
(Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal : Discussion Papers ; 2012-44)
| Christian Dreger, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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SOEPpapers 527 / 2012
Improving energy efficiency is one of the three pillars of the European energy and climate targets for 2020 and has led to the introduction of several policy measures to promote energy efficiency. The paper analyzes the effectiveness of subsidies in increasing energy efficiency in residential dwellings. An empirical analysis is conducted in which the effectiveness of subsidies on the number of dwelling ...
2012| Caroline Dieckhöner
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Diskussionspapiere 1261 / 2012
The North and Baltic Sea Grid is one of the largest pan-European infrastructure projects raising high hopes regarding the potential of harnessing large amounts of renewable electricity, but also concerns about the implementation in largely nationally dominated regulatory regimes. The paper develops three idealtype development scenarios and quantifies the technical-economic effects: i) the Status quo ...
2012| Jonas Egerer, Friedrich Kunz, Christian von Hirschhausen
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2012
Over the past few years, prices and rents for flats went up in most German cities. This trend is expected to continue in 2013. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt am Main will still see the highest increases in property prices and rents. In these cities, housing prices are rising much faster than rents. By contrast, stagnating or even falling prices are forecast for the cities in the Ruhr area. ...
2012| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Andreas Mense
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Diskussionspapiere 1253 / 2012
The liberalisation of the natural gas markets and the importance of natural gas as a transition fuel to a low-carbon economy have led to the development of several large-scale equilibrium models in the last decade. These models combine long-term market equilibria and investments in infrastructure while accounting for market power by certain suppliers. They are widely used to simulate market outcomes ...
2012| Daniel Huppmann
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Diskussionspapiere 1244 / 2012
In this paper, we examine the effects of an airport expansion on the prices of houses and flats located under the planned flight corridors. We focus on the role of expectations about the exposure to noise and find that proximity to the planned corridors significantly reduces real estate prices in the affected areas, by around 41% to 60%, depending on the sample. Hereby, the various plans of expanding ...
2012| Andreas Mense, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
In:
George Anderson (Ed.) ,
Oil & Gas in Federal Systems
Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press
S. 192-226
| Victor G. Carreon-Rodriguez, Juan Rosellón
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Diskussionspapiere 1251 / 2012
The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the associated activity growth could increase child labour. Using household survey data from Uganda, I find that children ...
2012| Tony Muhumuza
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Diskussionspapiere 1214 / 2012
This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an increase in the relative size of more productive firms. We show how the relative importance of these effects, and ...
2012| Udo Kreickemeier, Philipp M. Richter