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The project researches the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Brazil, Germany/EU, India, Indonesia and South Africa, by research-based policy advice and capacity building. The project will especially analyse policy and financial instruments that support the just transition to a climate-friendly pathway and that can contribute to the mobilization of...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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In this project, we carry out model-based economic analyses of different strategies for renewable energy integration in Germany, with a focus on storage technologies. Quantitative, numerical power market models are used to analyse the demand for storage capacities, the interaction between storage and transmission expansion, and the use of storage in oligopolistic markets. Moreover, we investigate...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Forecasting and Economic Policy
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Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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The project provides scientific advice to the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA/DEHSt) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment in evaluating, implementing nationally, and further developing the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Central topics of the analyses are the interaction of the EU ETS with energy and climate policies, the structural development of the EU ETS post-2020 and its...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The Public Economics Department develops and operates microsimulation models on consumption taxation. The models are based on representative scientific use files of the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS) and the Continuous Household Budget Survey for Germany (LWR). The data allows for assessing the consumption tax burden of private households. The models take into account behavioral responses in...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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The ecological tax reform integrates both economic incentives of environmental policy and tax reform issues. DIW Berlin participated in the policy debate since the early 90ies in Germany with several studies.
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment, Public Economics
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Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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The research project's main question is the formalisation of the relative value of personal information for consumers in economic transactions in a sitation where they compare two service providers. The report's results will be based on a duopoly model and implementation of a lab as well as field experiment with which the model will be empirically validated.
The full report is available for...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Previous to the 2014 revision of the Renewable Energy Act (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz, EEG) this study added to the discussion around cost reliefs for many industrial enterprises. These reliefs were criticized for increasing electricity costs for non-privileged consumers, without any assessment whether privileged firms were actually exposed to international competition. The study develops...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The study will provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the impact of the State aid rules for banks, which will serve as evidence for the evaluation of the State aid rules applicable to banks in difficulty since their entry into force in end-2008.
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Study on the investment behavior of electricity and gas network operators as part of the evaluation report in accordance with § 33 para. 1 ARegV (in German only)
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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The European Green Deal includes the goal of enshrining the long-term objective of climate neutrality by 2050 in legislation and increasing the EU’s climate by 2030. In this context, the Green Deal emphasized that “should differences in levels of ambition worldwide persist, as the EU increases its climate ambition, the Commission will propose a carbon border adjustment mechanism, for selected...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEP-RegioHub at Bielefeld University (SOEP@UBi)
Living conditions in Germany today show evidence of increasing and rapidly changing regional disparities in structural, demographic and economic domains. These disparities often take the form of an adverse access to health care facilities, childcare provision, education and other public services as well as regional labour...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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The Structural Development Act for Coal-Mining Regions entered into force on August 14, 2020. In this context, the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development at the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBSR) has been commissioned to establish a Competence Center for Regional Development to provide scientific support for structural change, to...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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As part of the evaluation process of the current State aid rules, the European Commission has awarded to the consortium of Lear, DIW Berlin, and Sheppard Mullin, a specific contract to carry out a study to support its evaluation of the rules regarding access of airports to operating aid under the EU Aviation Framework applicable as of 2014 (2014 Aviation Guidelines or the Guidelines). The study...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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The European Commission (DG Competition) commissioned an international consortium of DIW Berlin together with E.CA Economics, LEAR, University of East Anglia and Sheppard Mullin with a background study on State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy. The results of the study will support the Commission in the revision of the EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Climate Policy
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Completed Project| Macroeconomics
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Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Energy, Transportation, Environment
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The Sustainable Finance Research Platform is a network of five German research institutions that have been conducting intensive research on sustainable finance for many years. The aim of the platform is to provide scientific support in answering key social, political and private sector questions, to provide established and emerging knowledge and to play an advisory role in the political and public...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Energy, Transportation, Environment