Nach langen coronabedingten Lockdowns erwacht die deutsche Wirtschaft nach und nach aus ihrem Winterschlaf. Da immer mehr Menschen geimpft sind und die Infektionszahlen fallen, können viele Branchen wieder auf einen normaleren Geschäftsbetrieb hoffen, allen voran die gebeutelten Dienstleistungsfirmen etwa in der Kultur- und Veranstaltungsbranche und die Reiseveranstalter. Die Industrie, die besser ...
Die globale Erholung verläuft langsamer als sich noch im vergangenen Jahr andeutete. Grund für den schleppenden Jahresbeginn waren hohe Corona-Infektionszahlen und damit verbundene wirtschaftliche Restriktionen in Europa und Japan. Zuletzt zeichnete sich ein zweigeteiltes Bild ab: In den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften werden sinkende Infektionszahlen und weitere Impffortschritte voraussichtlich ...
Do memories of highly emotional stock market crashes permanently affect the investment decisions of households? The Initial Public Offerings of Deutsche Telekom during 1996- 2000 provide an optimal base to address this question, as it is known for its emotional character and is reputedly “the last time Germans invested in stocks.” Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) household survey data, I show that ...
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design across invisible telephone exchange catchment areas. Using this strategy, we find that increasing broadband ...
The review of the market stability reserve (MSR) is one of the key elements of the forthcoming reform of the EU ETS. This report assesses if the MSR is designed in a way that it can fulfil its pur-pose to provide sufficient supply-side flexibility under the cap. The authors discuss different op-tions for adapting and complementing the MSR parameters, such as the intake rate and thresholds for interventions, ...
There is substantial research interest in how future fleets of battery-electric vehicles will interact with the power sector. Various types of energy models are used for respective analyses. They depend on meaningful input parameters, in particular time series of vehicle mobility, driving electricity consumption, grid availability, or grid electricity demand. As the availability of such data is highly ...
We study the effectiveness, spillovers, and well-being effects of low emission zones in Germany, an emission-intensity-based driving restriction rapidly growing in popularity. Using regression discontinuity and group-time difference-in-differences designs, we show that previous estimates of the policy’s impact on traffic-related air pollution significantly underestimate its effectiveness. We provide ...