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• Publications // 14.05.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Analysis of a Capacity-Based Redispatch Mechanism

  capacity-based redispatch mechanism in which awarded market participants are compensated for their availability for redispatch, rather than activation. The rationale is to develop a market design that prevents [...] a market-based approach. We conduct a game-theoretical analysis of a capacity-based redispatch mechanism. Our analysis reveals that despite its intention, the capacity-based redispatch is prone to undesirable [...] additional redispatch potential equals the additional redispatch demand it creates. Consequently, the mechanism does not resolve network constraints, while causing costs for the compensation payments. Furthermore
• Projects // 01.10.2023

  TafelConnect – Platform for distributing large donations to food banks and other food-saving organizations

  quantities of food easier, more efficient, and more transparent. To this end, a distribution mechanism is being developed for the donated and often time-critical goods. This will digitize and optimize donation
• Events // 08.04.2024

  Describing Deferred Acceptance to Participants Experimental Analysis

  1962) matching mechanism is widely used in many matching markets, from assigning students to schools, to matching physicians to hospitals. The traditional way to describe this mechanism attempts to convey [...] strategyproofness more evident, salient, and/or interpretable? Motivated by recent theoretical developments, the paper presented in this ZEW Market Design Seminar will present new, promising empirical evidence
• Events // 26.02.2024

  Mechanism Design with Moral Bidders

  the others incur due to misreporting. Note that a 0-moral mechanism is a truthful mechanism. The authors develop a theory of moral mechanisms in the canonical setting of single-item auctions within the [...] by-product of the proof in this paper that optimal moral mechanisms are truthful is an alternative proof to Myerson’s optimal truthful mechanism characterization in the settings that the authors consider [...] approach by providing an alternative proof that does not involve moral mechanisms to Myerson’s characterization of optimal truthful mechanisms to all settings in which the values are independently drawn from
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  Press Releases // 02.11.2023

  R&D Tax Credit Is an Asset for Germany’s Innovation Landscape

  The German tax credit for research and development (“research allowance”) has been well-received in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. This is the result of a study jointly conducted by ZEW Mannheim [...] head of ZEW’s “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” Unit. “Only information services, mechanical engineering, and the electrical industry have submitted more applications for the tax credit.”
• Publications // 20.10.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Mobilizing Credit for Clean Energy: De-risking and Public Loan Provision Under Learning Spillovers

  address environmental and innovation externalities, remain unclear. Here, we develop a model of banks providing loans to clean energy projects that use a novel technology. Early-stage loans build up financing [...] Policymakers regularly rely on public financial institutions and government offices to provide loans to clean energy projects. However, the market failures that public loan provision addresses and the role it
• Publications // 28.09.2023

  Refereed Journal - E-commerce, delivery drones and their impact on cities

  gained importance over the last years and the COVID-19 pandemic has further strengthened this development. With the increasing opportunities that novel transport technologies, amongst them cargo drones [...] shopping and delivery via drone and online shopping and delivery via truck. Due to the equilibrium mechanisms changes in shopping behavior potentially result in different home and work location choices or
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  News // 13.09.2023

  Sound Climate Policy Correlates with Prosperity

  achievement, showcasing a strong belief in market mechanisms. However, it does indeed disadvantage European firms in global competition. Therefore, a mechanism for compensation is necessary: companies exporting [...] USA has historically been a major catalyst for innovation. Technologies like drones, initially developed for military purposes, now have numerous civilian applications. Perhaps we can derive a positive
• Events // 11.04.2023

  Centralized Public Procurement and Favoritism

  detect favoritism, and provide evidence for PP of Finnish cleaning services. The author finds evidence of favoritism in locally procured cleaning services but not when using CPP. The indicative evidence [...] which is argued to be a tool to increase efficiency in PP. It notes that there is yet another mechanism to increase efficiency through CPP: preventing favoritism. Favoritism can emerge through the procurer
• Publications // 23.02.2023

  Discussion and Working Paper - Thermodynamik - grundlegende Einsichten für ein Verständnis von Umweltproblemen

  decision-makers in environmental policy to understand the nature of environmental problems and to develop possible solutions. First, we deal with the connection between physical work and heat. Then we explain