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Marginal Taxes: A Good or a Bad for Wages?: The Incidence of the Structure of Income and Labor Taxes on Wages
Rattenhuber, Pia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Empirical evidence so far found ambiguous results for the direction of effect of marginal income tax rates on employee remuneration. Based on the GSOEP data from 2002 through 2008 this study analyzes the impact of the marginal tax load on the employee side on the wage rate also allowing average...
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An Economic Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration with Biochar in Germany
Teichmann, Isabel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
Biochar is a carbon-rich solid obtained from the heating of biomass in the (near) absence of oxygen in a process called pyrolysis. Its soil incorporation is increasingly discussed as a means to sequester carbon in soils and, thus, to help mitigate climate change. When deployed in agricultural...
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Climate Change and Modelling of Extreme Temperatures in Switzerland
Siliverstovs, Boriss; Ötsch, Rainald; Kemfert, Claudia; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This study models maximum temperatures in Switzerland monitored in twelve locations using the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) distribution. The parameters of the GEV distribution are determined within a Bayesian framework. We find that the parameters of the underlying distribution underwent a...
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The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector
Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation - to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production...
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Innovation in Concentrating Solar Power Technologies: A Study Drawing on Patent Data
Braun, Frauke G.; Hooper, Liz; Wand, Robert; Zloczysti, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major...
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Implementing CDM Limits in the EU ETS: A Law and Economics Approach
Vasa, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the main instrument to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Subject to a country specific limit, installations in the EU ETS can use EU allowances (EUA) and certified emissions reductions (CERs) generated through the Clean Development Mechanism...
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Europe's Twenties: A Study Using the WIATEC Model
Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans; Truong, Truong - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In this paper, we use a computable general equilibrium model (WIATEC) to study the potential impact of implementing Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and within the range of recent empirical evidence....
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Tropical Cyclone Losses in the USA and the Impact of Climate Change: A Trend Analysis Based on a New Dataset
Schmidt, Silvio; Kemfert, Claudia; Höppe, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Economic losses caused by tropical cyclones have increased dramatically. It can be assumed that most losses are due to increased prosperity and a greater tendency for people to settle in exposed areas, but also that the growing incidence of severe cyclones is due to climate change. This paper...
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Mitigation of Methane Emissions: A Rapid and Cost-Effective Response to Climate Change
Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon according to the latest IPCC report. Thus, CH4...
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The Role of Natural Gas in a Low-Carbon Europe: Infrastructure and Regional Supply Security in the Global Gas Model
Holz, Franziska; Richter, Philipp M.; Egging, Ruud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
gas market until 2050. Three pathways of natural gas consumption in a future low-carbon energy system in Europe are … envisaged: i) a decreasing natural gas consumption, along the results of the PRIMES model for the EMF decarbonization scenarios …; ii) a moderate increase of natural gas consumption, along the lines of the IEA (2012) World Energy Outlook's New Policy …
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