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Well-being effects of a major negative externality: The case of Fukushima
Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
reactors in Fukushima, causing a major nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. Based on a quasi-experimental difference … Information Systems to merge the well-being data with information on respondents’ distance to the Fukushima nuclear plant and on … Fukushima site being equivalent to up to 72 percent of annual household income. We find no evidence for increased nation …
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Integrating Bioenergy into Computable General Equilibrium Models – A Survey
Kretschmer, Bettina; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
In the past years biofuels have received increased attention since they were believed to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming. It became also clear, though, that bioenergy cannot be evaluated independently of the rest of the economy and that national and...
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Using four waves of the European Social Survey (179,273 individuals from 29 countries) the authors analyze the association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income...
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Do Geographical Variations in Climate Influence Life Satisfaction?
Murray, Thomas; Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Accounting for socioeconomic and demographic variables as well as country specific effects, households’ willingness to pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas with lower average levels of sunshine and higher average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132528
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The Impact of Climate on Life Satisfaction
Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values Survey. Climate is described in terms of ‘degree-months’ calculated using an optimally-selected base temperature of 65°F (18.3°C). Our results suggest that countries with...
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Social influences towards conformism in economic experiments
Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956027
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Distant Event, Local Effects? Fukushima and the German Housing Market
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led … internet platform for real estate to investigate the effect of Fukushima on the German housing market. Using a difference …-in-differences approach, we find that Fukushima reduced house prices near nuclear power plants that were in operation before Fukushima by …
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Subsidies for Renewable Energies in the Presence of Learning Effects and Market Power
Reichenbach, Johanna; Requate, Till - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
We study the impact of learning by doing, learning spill-overs, and imperfect competition in a model with two types of electricity producers, an oligopolistic sector of polluting fossil-fuel utilities and a competitive fringe of non-polluting generators of electricity from renewable energy...
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Analysing Bioenergy and Land Use Competition in a Coupled Modelling System: The Role of Bioenergy in Renewable Energy Policy in Germany
Delzeit, Ruth; Gömann, Horst; Holm-Müller, Karin; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
In the context of energy security and climate protection, biomass is given high importance. Nevertheless, land-use conflicts resulting from the cultivation of biomass and their economy-wide effects are yet to be fully understood. To shed light on this issue we link three distinctive models; a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682911
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Ökonomische Bewertung des Erneuerbare Energien Gesetzes zur Förderung von Biogas
Delzeit, Ruth; Holm-Müller, Karin; Britz, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
The Renewable-Energy-Source-Act (EEG) promotes German biogas production in order to substitute fossil fuels, protect the environment and prevent climate change. In this paper we quantitatively analyse the EEG-reform in 2008. Results imply that the reform contributes to an expansion of biogas...
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