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News // 24.07.2024support the grid and lower average electricity costs. Local electricity pricing also means that new industrial investments can benefit from the local surplus of green electricity. Those who invest in hydrogen [...] decisions, power plant operation, storage, consumers and import/export would remain blind to local conditions as local market conditions are not reflected in the price. Since batteries, electric vehicles and [...] it will switch to local pricing in the future, investors will build at efficient locations. Otherwise, the problems of the electricity market will merely be patched up, the financing of the capacity market
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News // 10.06.2024On 16 and 17 May 2024, ZEW organised the annual ZEW Public Finance Conference, sponsored by the Arbeitskreis für Europäische Integration e. V. This year’s focus topic was “Government-led Transformation” [...] n”. Around 100 participants discussed this and other topics related to public finance and political economy in over 65 presentations. In addition, the event programme featured two high-profile keynote [...] opened on Thursday with a session featuring Ralf Martin and Chiara Criscuolo from the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, who presented their research on tax subsidies for research and
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Press Releases // 23.01.2024price of the Deutschland-Ticket, which can be used in all regional and local trains throughout Germany, at 49 euros for 2024. The financing beyond 2024 was also discussed, and solutions are expected to be developed [...] mobility behaviour. To streamline existing fare and network structures in the long run, a definitive financing solution beyond 2024 is now essential. This is the only way to give operators the much-needed planning
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Publications // 21.12.2023
impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from emerging Europe, we show that when local respondent banks lose access to correspondent banking services, their corporate borrowers start to [...] highlight an often overlooked function of global banks: providing the payment infrastructure and trade finance that enables firms in less-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world.
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News // 02.10.2023CEO performance, the impact of refugee immigration on native workers, and the relationship between local networks and business start-ups. Additionally, ZEW was present with an information stand where VfS [...] its 150th founding anniversary with a ceremonial event. During this event, Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner delivered a speech on “Financial Policy in Times of Transformation”. Other guests [...] chairwoman of the German Council of Economic Experts, and Jakob von Weizsäcker, State Minister of Finance and Science of the Saarland, who jointly discussed the role of science in policy advising. Next year
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Press Releases // 12.09.2022labour-intensive products. Even if extreme weather events occur locally, they affect trade on a global scale. This is because the local decline in supply is causing importers to look for alternative options: [...] other exporters, which causes additional costs. A study by ZEW Mannheim and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management shows for the first time that substantial parts of the economic damage occur in countries [...] directly affected by the heat,” says co-author Professor Oliver Schenker of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. It is foreseeable that economic losses due to climate change will not decrease in the
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Publications // 25.08.2021
banks allow local banks in emerging markets to access the international payments system. This helps local banks to make cross-border payments, clear currencies, and provide trade finance. The recent [...] and trade finance services has considerable negative effects on exports. This negative effect is stronger for trading partners that are geographically more distant. A survey of 93 local banks confirms [...] clearing currencies. In particular, access to the U.S. financial system is severely inhibited and local banks can only imperfectly substitute lost correspondent bank relationships with new partners from