The heightened volatility of commodity prices in recent years, reflecting the effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, begs the longstanding question of the optimal fiscal policy response to commodity price shocks. Fiscal performance in most commodity-exporting countries is typically...

This paper examines the historical effects of El Nino on world prices and economic activity. Although the primary focus is on world real non-oil primary commodity prices, the effects on G-7 consumer price inflation and GDP growth are also considered. This paper has several distinct advantages...

This paper deals with climate change and nomadic migration relationships at a long term and wide geographical scale using a statistical approach in the vein of Bai and Kung (2011). More precisely, it presents a reassessment of these relationships in a nonlinear world using threshold regressions,...

The Global Digital Reserve (GDR) represents an innovative paradigm in the world of cryptocurrencies, designed to overcome existing limitations and enhance global financial inclusivity. This white paper delves into an in-depth analysis of the GDR, its design, technical implementation, and...

There is an increasing tension between the Iranian Government and the west on an increasingly likely European oil embargo and the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. The main question is: What will happen to the international oil prices in the case of shocks in the flow of Iranian oil...

As GHG emissions did not decline as anticipated early of the 1990ties Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) recently gained more and more attention as a climate change mitigation option. However, CO2 suppressed in geological reservoirs is likely to lead to future releases of the CO2 stored. This...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit der hoch entwickelten Industrieländer ist ihre wichtigste Quelle für Wohlstand und Wachstum. Das DIW Berlin hat in diesem Jahr zum dritten Mal im Auftrag der Deutschen Telekom Stiftung und des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) einen Gesamtindikator für...

This paper investigates the occurrences at the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, from the 13th to 25th November of 2000. Since the conference did not reach an agreement there...

Angesichts stark wachsender Nachfrage nach Rohstoffen, insbesondere vonseiten der aufstrebenden Schwellenländer und entsprechend steigender Rohstoffpreise, richtet sich der Blick zunehmend auf die Tiefsee als enorme noch weitgehend unerschlossene Quelle reichhaltiger Rohstoffvorkommen. Der...

Nach Ansicht von Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer, World Energy Council, London, und Thomas Thielemann, RWE Power AG, Köln, sind der verstärkte Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien und die Nutzung von Kohle keine Gegensätze. Kohle sei ein Schlüsselfaktor für die Sicherheit der Energieversorgung und zudem...