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Global Food Markets: Global Food Security - Challenge for Production and Consumption

Scarce resources, the rising demand for agricultural products and growing land-use competition between the production of energy and food have increased the importance of strategies for food security. In the research project “Global Food Markets: Global Food Security – Challenges for Production and Consumption” both supply and demand-oriented approaches that can realize sustainable supply increases...

Der Ölpreis auf den Weltmärkten - ein Oligopolspiel mit ungewissem Ausgang

Seitdem sich im Lauf des letzten Jahres die Rohölpreise nahezu halbiert haben, wird viel darüber spekuliert, wie deren zukünftiger Verlauf sein könnte. In seinem Kommentar befasst sich Georg Erber, European Productivity Research Center, mit dem Einfluss der OPEC und der USA auf die Erdölpreise.Since oil prices almost halved over the course of last year, there is a lot of speculation about how they ...

The Market Value of Energy Efficiency in Buildings and the Mode of Tenure

Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossil fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investments are too low in the light of the potential ...

The 7th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an...

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2016

Big data is transforming the world we live in. The instant availability of information impacts how individuals consume, how businesses thrive or fail, how society makes scientific discoveries, as well as how governments design and implement informed policies. At a pace and scale unanticipated 20 years ago, information technology is enabling consumers globally. Uncountable services make use of a...

Auswirkungen von CO2-Grenzwerten für fossile Kraftwerke auf Strommarkt und Klimaschutz in Deutschland: Studie im Auftrag der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

The 5th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international...

National-Strategic Investment in European Power Transmission Capacity

The transformation of the European electricity system requires substantial investment in transmission capacity to facilitate cross-border trade and to efficiently integrate renewable energy sources. However, network planning in the EU is still mainly a national prerogative. In contrast to other studies aiming to identify the pan-European (continental) welfare-optimal transmission expansion, we investigate ...

Highway to the Danger Zone: die Gefahren des Niedrigzinses nehmen zu

Die Zinsen befinden sich in Deutschland seit mehr als sieben Jahren auf einem historisch niedrigen Niveau. Der Umstand, dass bislang sowohl die Kreditvergabe als auch der Immobilienmarkt als wichtigster Vermögensmarkt moderat auf die historisch niedrigen Zinsen reagiert haben, ist kein Grund zur Entwarnung. Finanzstabilitätsrisiken bauen sich oft erst langsam auf. Wenn sich destabilisierende Prozesse ...

Renewable Electric Energy Integration: Quantifying the Value of Design of Markets for International Transmission Capacity

Integrating large quantities of variable renewable electricity generation remains a political and operational challenge. One of the main obstacles in Europe to installing at least 200 GWs of power from variable renewable sources is how to deal with the insufficient network capacity and the congestion that will result from new flow patterns. We model the current methodology for controlling congestion ...