@incollection{Wegrich, author = {Wegrich, Kai}, title = {Regulatory Impact Assessment: Ambition, Design and Politics}, series = {Handbook on the Politics of Regulation}, booktitle = {Handbook on the Politics of Regulation}, publisher = {Elgar Publ.}, address = {Cheltenham [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-0857937599}, doi = {10.4337/9780857936110.00045}, pages = {397 -- 410}, language = {en} } @article{UeckerdtHirthLudereretal., author = {Ueckerdt, Falko and Hirth, Lion and Luderer, Gunnar and Edenhofer, Ottmar}, title = {System LCOE: What are the costs of variable renewables?}, series = {Energy}, volume = {63}, journal = {Energy}, publisher = {Elsevier Ltd}, issn = {0360-5442}, doi = {10.1016/j.energy.2013.10.072}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22942}, pages = {61 -- 75}, abstract = {Levelized costs of electricity (LCOE) are a common metric for comparing power generating technologies. However, there is criticism particularly towards evaluating variable renewables like wind and solar PV power based on LCOE because it ignores variability and integration costs. We propose a new metric System LCOE that accounts for integration and generation costs. For this purpose we develop a new mathematical definition of integration costs that directly relates to economic theory. As a result System LCOE allow the economic comparison of generating technologies and deriving optimal quantities in particular for VRE. To demonstrate the new concept we quantify System LCOE from a simple power system model and literature values. We find that at high wind shares integration costs can be in the same range as generation costs of wind power and conventional plants in particular due to a cost component "profile costs" captured by the new definition. Integration costs increase with growing wind shares and might become an economic barrier to deploying VRE at high shares. System LCOE help understanding and resolving the challenge of integrating VRE and can guide research and policy makers in realizing a cost-efficient transformation towards an energy system with potentially high shares of variable renewables.}, language = {en} } @article{EdenhoferHirthKnopfetal., author = {Edenhofer, Ottmar and Hirth, Lion and Knopf, Brigitte and Pahle, Michael and Schl{\"o}mer, Steffen and Schmid, Eva and Ueckerdt, Falko}, title = {On the Economics of Renewable Energy Sources}, series = {Energy Economics}, volume = {40}, journal = {Energy Economics}, number = {S1}, issn = {0140-9883}, doi = {10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.015}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22965}, pages = {S12 -- S23}, abstract = {With the global expansion of renewable energy (RE) technologies, the provision of optimal RE policy packages becomes an important task. We review pivotal aspects regarding the economics of renewables that are relevant to the design of an optimal RE policy, many of which are to date unresolved. We do so from three interrelated perspectives that a meaningful public policy framework for inquiry must take into account. First, we explore different social objectives justifying the deployment of RE technologies, including potential co-benefits of RE deployment, and review modelbased estimates of the economic potential of RE technologies, i.e. their socially optimal deployment level. Second, we address pivotal market failures that arise in the course of implementing the economic potential of RE sources in decentralized markets. Third, we discuss multiple policy instruments curing these market failures. Our framework reveals the requirements for an assessment of the relevant options for real-world decision makers in the field of RE policies. This review makes it clear that there are remaining white areas on the knowledge map concerning consistent and socially optimal RE policies.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Lepenies, author = {Lepenies, Robert F.}, title = {Losers in Trade: Economics and Normative Justifications}, school = {Hertie School}, pages = {XV, 273}, abstract = {Should there be free trade? This question finds different, and often contradicting answers in philosophy and economics. Among economists, there is a remarkable consensus that free markets are desirable. It is this curious consensus that motivates this study. This dissertations aims to explain, reconstruct and contest the neoclassical vision in mainstream trade theory. It is argued that economic justifications for free trade policies rely on an array of implicit and explicit normative premises,and that economists take positions on topics that are usually dealt with by political philosophers. Taken together, these premises and positions amount to what will be called the neoclassical vision. It is argued that throughout the history of economics, economic doctrines were inescapably normative. Tracing the intellectual and historical origins of this neoclassical vision, it is shown how a specific view of what justice demands in the economy came to be constitutive of today's economic arguments. I hence attempt to treat economics today as it has historically been: as a branch of political philosophy, and as inextricably normative. Normative trade theory and the theoretical arguments put forward by international economists will serve as the case study on which basis the neoclassical vision is reconstructed. In turn, the vision will be critically assessed from a liberal egalitarian perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the question of the role of politics in how losers from economic activity are treated. Following this critical analysis, I argue for the need of a normative 'countervision'that is most convincingly provided by John Rawls's early work. It will then be outlined how Rawls could respond and overcome the pitfalls of the neoclassical vision - even though Rawls is deeply influenced by conventional economic thought himself. (...)}, language = {en} } @article{HirthUeckerdt, author = {Hirth, Lion and Ueckerdt, Falko}, title = {Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The Electricity Market}, series = {Energy Policy}, volume = {62}, journal = {Energy Policy}, publisher = {Elsevier Ltd}, issn = {0301-4215}, doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.055}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22886}, pages = {934 -- 947}, abstract = {Energy and climate policies are usually seen as measures to internalize externalities. However, as a side effect, the introduction of these policies redistributes wealth between consumers and producers, and within these groups. While redistribution is seldom the focus of the academic literature in energy economics, it plays a central role in public debates and policy decisions. This paper compares the distributional effects of two major electricity policies: support schemes for renewable energy sources, and CO2 pricing. We find that the redistribution effects of both policies are large, and they work in opposed directions. While renewables support transfers wealth from producers to consumers, carbon pricing does the opposite. More specifically, we show that moderate amounts of wind subsidies can increase consumer surplus, even if consumers bear the subsidy costs. CO2 pricing, in contrast, increases aggregated producer surplus, even without free allocation of emission allowances; however, not all types of producers benefit. These findings are derived from an analytical model of electricity markets, and a calibrated numerical model of Northwestern Europe. Our findings imply that if policy makers want to avoid large redistribution they might prefer a mix of policies, even if CO2 pricing alone is the first-best climate policy in terms of allocative efficiency.}, language = {en} } @article{Hirth, author = {Hirth, Lion}, title = {The market value of variable renewables: The effect of solar wind power variability on their relative price}, series = {Energy Economics}, volume = {38}, journal = {Energy Economics}, publisher = {Elsevier B.V.}, issn = {0140-9883}, doi = {10.1016/j.eneco.2013.02.004}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22900}, pages = {218 -- 236}, abstract = {This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the market value of variable renewable energy (VRE). The inherent variability of wind speeds and solar radiation affects the price that VRE generators receive on the market (market value). During windy and sunny times the additional electricity supply reduces the prices. Because the drop is larger with more installed capacity, the market value of VRE falls with higher penetration rate. This study aims to develop a better understanding on how the market value with penetration, and how policies and prices affect the market value. Quantitative evidence is derived from a review of published studies, regression analysis of market data, and the calibrated model of the European electricity market EMMA. We find the value of wind power to fall from 110\% of the average power price to 50-80\% as wind penetration increases from zero to 30\% of total electricity consumption. For solar power, similarly low value levels are reached already at 15\% penetration. Hence, competitive large-scale renewable deployment will be more difficult to accomplish than as many anticipate.}, language = {en} } @article{CalıKochBruch, author = {{\c{C}}al{\i}, Ba{\c{s}}ak and Koch, Anne and Bruch, Nicola}, title = {The social legitimacy of Human Rights Courts: a grounded interpretivist analysis of the European Court of Human Rights}, series = {Human Rights Quarterly}, volume = {35}, journal = {Human Rights Quarterly}, number = {3}, publisher = {The Johns Hopkins University Press}, issn = {1085-794X}, doi = {10.1353/hrq.2013.0057}, pages = {955 -- 984}, abstract = {This article offers an empirically grounded interpretivist theory of the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights based on domestic judicial and political elite accounts of the legitimacy of the Court in Turkey, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. The central argument of the article is that the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is based on a constant comparison between the values and goals of domestic institutions and the values and goals of the European Court of Human Rights. More specifically, the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is grounded in the logic of a fair compromise: What actors think they lose by according legitimacy to the European Court of Human Rights must be balanced by what they perceive to gain in return. Three factors organise how actors in different domestic settings struck a fair compromise in their domestic contexts: a) perception of domestic human rights conditions, b) commitment to cosmopolitan ideals of human rights and international law and c) commitment to domestic institutions.}, language = {en} } @misc{MairLupu, author = {Mair, Johanna and Lupu, Raluca}, title = {Citigroup: Targeting leadership in global growth}, publisher = {IESE Business School}, address = {Barcelona}, pages = {18}, language = {en} } @article{HirthZiegenhagen, author = {Hirth, Lion and Ziegenhagen, Inka}, title = {Wind, Sonne, und Regelleistung}, series = {Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen : et}, journal = {Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen : et}, number = {10}, edition = {13}, publisher = {EW Medien und Kongresse GmbH}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, issn = {0013-743X - 0720-6240}, pages = {59}, language = {de} } @incollection{HirthUeckerdt, author = {Hirth, Lion and Ueckerdt, Falko}, title = {The Decreasing Market Value of Variable Renewables: Integration Options and Deadlocks}, series = {Transition to Renewable Energy Systems}, booktitle = {Transition to Renewable Energy Systems}, editor = {Stolten, Detlef and Scherer, Viktor}, publisher = {Wiley VCH}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-3527332397}, doi = {10.1002/9783527673872.ch6}, pages = {75 -- 92}, language = {en} } @book{Graf2013, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland}, publisher = {Budrich UniPress Ltd.}, address = {Opladen, Berlin \& Toronto}, isbn = {978-3-86388-043-9}, doi = {10.3224/86388043}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24323}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {304}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Austria, Germany, and Switzerland are increasingly relying on hybridization at the nexus of vocational training and higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly praised systems of collective skill formation. This historical and organizational institutionalist study compares these countries to trace the evolution of their skill regimes from the 1960s to today's era of Europeanization, focusing especially on the impact of the Bologna and Copenhagen processes.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Stockmann, author = {Stockmann, Daniela}, title = {Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans}, series = {Chinese Views of the EU: Public Support for a Strong Relation}, booktitle = {Chinese Views of the EU: Public Support for a Strong Relation}, editor = {Dong, Lisheng and Wang, Zhengxu and Dekker, Henk}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {9781136753244}, language = {en} } @incollection{Calı, author = {{\c{C}}al{\i}, Ba{\c{s}}ak}, title = {The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence}, series = {The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives}, booktitle = {The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives}, editor = {F{\o}llesdal, Andreas and Schaffer, Johan Karlsson and Ulfstein, Geir}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {978-1-107-03460-0}, doi = {10.1017/CBO9781139540827.006}, pages = {141 -- 164}, language = {en} } @book{PisaniFerry, author = {Pisani-Ferry, Jean}, title = {Le R{\´e}veil des D{\´e}mons: la crise de l'euro et comment nous en sortir}, edition = {Nouvelle {\´e}d., revue et augment{\´e}e}, publisher = {Pluriel}, address = {Paris}, isbn = {978-2818503126}, pages = {249}, abstract = {On croyait les d{\´e}mons assagis : {\`a} la faveur de la crise financi{\`e}re de 2008, les Etats avaient repris le dessus sur les march{\´e}s financiers et les politiques {\´e}conomiques savaient r{\´e}pondre et conjurer la d{\´e}pression. Mais la temp{\^e}te qui a {\´e}branl{\´e} la zone euro entre 2009 et 2012, au d{\´e}part crise banale dans une petite {\´e}conomie p{\´e}riph{\´e}rique, la Gr{\`e}ce, a gagn{\´e} un pays apr{\`e}s l'autre et a menac{\´e} d'emporter tout l'{\´e}difice mon{\´e}taire europ{\´e}en. Dans ce brillant essai, Jean Pisani-Ferry retrace les {\´e}tapes de la crise et analyse les solutions adopt{\´e}es. Si l'Europe a fait preuve d'un remarquable sens de la survie, elle souffre aujourd'hui d'une dangereuse absence de communaut{\´e} de projets.}, language = {fr} } @phdthesis{Staemmler, author = {Staemmler, Johannes}, title = {Wie St{\"a}dte sich neu finden}, school = {Hertie School}, pages = {195}, abstract = {In St{\"a}dten verdichten sich wie nirgendwo sonst {\"o}konomische, soziale und kulturelle Facetten menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Hier entstehen wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Impulse. 84 Prozent der deutschen Bev{\"o}lkerung lebt in St{\"a}dten. Doch sind nicht alle St{\"a}dte gleichermaßen Orte von Wachstum und Innovation. Mit dem Ende der Industrialisierung und dem {\"U}bergang in die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft (vgl. Bell 1999) sind einige St{\"a}dte aus dem gr{\"o}ßeren Arbeits-kreislauf der Gesellschaft herausgefallen. Sie haben aufgeh{\"o}rt, zentrale Orte des Wirtschaftens zu sein. Ihre Bev{\"o}lkerungen schrumpfen, Geb{\"a}ude bleiben ungenutzt und die {\"o}ffentliche Hand verf{\"u}gt nur {\"u}ber unzureichende und schwindende Mittel, dem entgegenzuwirken. Es sind strukturschwache St{\"a}dte. Kommunale Schrumpfungsprozesse sind aus dem 20. Jahrhundert kaum bekannt, obwohl zwei Kriege in Deutschland tobten und unvorstellbare Verw{\"u}stungen hinterlassen haben. (...)}, language = {de} } @article{CedermanGleditschSalehyanetal., author = {Cederman, Lars-Erik and Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede and Salehyan, Idean and Wucherpfennig, Julian}, title = {Transborder Ethnic Kin and Civil War}, series = {Inernational Organization}, volume = {67}, journal = {Inernational Organization}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1017/S0020818313000064}, pages = {389 -- 410}, abstract = {A series of studies has shown that civil wars are caused not only by factors inside countries, but also by effects operating across state borders. Whereas a first wave of quantitative studies demonstrated that such effects make the "closed-polity" assumption untenable, more recently researchers have identified particular causal mechanisms driving conflict. Despite these recent advances, a central puzzle remains unresolved, namely why ethnic groups that at least in theory could count on support from large transborder ethnic kin (TEK) groups often have remained surprisingly peaceful, such as the stranded Russian populations in the "near abroad." We propose a theoretical framework that extends the analysis from the primary dyad between the incumbent and the challenger group by adding a secondary dyad that pits the incumbent against the TEK group. We postulate a curvilinear effect of the TEK group's relative size on conflict onset. Using a new data set on transnational ethnic links, we find that that the risk of conflict increases within the middle range of the size spectrum, consistent with our main hypothesis. This means that large TEK groups have a conflict-dampening effect, provided that they control their own state. Excluded TEK groups, however, are not associated with lower conflict probabilities.}, language = {en} } @article{SeelosMair, author = {Seelos, Christian and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Innovation and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act}, series = {Stanford Social Innovation Review}, volume = {Spring 2013}, journal = {Stanford Social Innovation Review}, number = {Special Supplement: Innovation for a Complex World}, pages = {12 -- 14}, language = {en} } @article{FellnerSausgruberTraxler, author = {Fellner, Gerlinde and Sausgruber, Rupert and Traxler, Christian}, title = {Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information}, series = {Journal of the European Economic Association}, volume = {11}, journal = {Journal of the European Economic Association}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1111/jeea.12013|}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-19704}, pages = {634 -- 660}, abstract = {We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailings, a threat treatment which makes a high detection risk salient has a significant deterrent effect. Neither appealing to morals nor imparting information about others' behavior enhances compliance on aggregate. However, the information condition has a weak positive effect in municipalities where evasion is believed to be common.}, language = {en} } @article{GloecknerTowfighTraxler, author = {Gl{\"o}ckner, Andreas and Towfigh, Emanuel and Traxler, Christian}, title = {Development of legal expertise}, series = {Instructional Science}, volume = {41}, journal = {Instructional Science}, number = {6}, pages = {989 -- 1007}, abstract = {In a comprehensive empirical investigation (N = 71,405) we analyzed the development of legal expertise in a critical 1-year period of academic legal training in which advanced law students start practicing to solve complex cases. We were particularly interested in the functional form of the learning curve and inter-individual differences in learning. Performance increases monotonically with the number of practice exams following a slightly concave learning curve without any considerable kinks. Considering the performance development over time, however, the curve is not monotonic and shows intermediate drops in performance. We provide evidence which suggests that these drops are due to cyclic drops in motivation. There are about equally sized marginal effects of practicing law exams in general and practicing exams in the specific area of law. However, students with high (vs. low) initial performance profit more from practicing exams within a specific area of law whereas students with low initial performance profit more from practicing exams in general. The concave increase in performance with the number of practicing exams is mainly driven by individuals with low initial performance. Those with high initial performance mainly display a linear learning trend. We discuss the practical implications of these findings for academic legal training.}, language = {en} } @misc{MungiuPippidiBratuCharronetal., author = {Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina and Bratu, Roxana and Charron, Nicholas and Dimulescu, Valentina and Doroftei, Madalina and Fazekas, Mih{\´a}ly and Kasemets, Aare and King, Lawrence Peter and Martinez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto and Pop, Raluca and T{\´o}th, Istv{\´a}n J{\´a}nos}, title = {Controlling Corruption in Europe}, series = {The Anticorruption Report}, volume = {1}, journal = {The Anticorruption Report}, editor = {Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina}, publisher = {Budrich}, address = {Opladen}, isbn = {978-3-8474-0125-4}, pages = {128}, abstract = {Corruption has an impact. It is about time that anticorruption starts having an impact, too. This is the first annual policy report of the European Seventh Framework Research Project ANTICORRP, which has started in 2012 and will continue until 2018. Based on the work of 21 different research centers and universities gathering original data, ANTICORRP offers yearly updates on the latest from corruption research, analyzing both the consequences of corruption and the impact of policies attempting to curb it. This first report offers a methodology to evaluate corruption risk and quality of government at country, region and sector level by means of corruption indicators that are sensitive to change and policy intervention. The aim of the project is to offer testable, easy to handle policies which reduce corruption risk. Corruption distorts market competition, bolsters deficits on behalf of discretionary spending, hurts real investment in public health and education, reduces tax collection, detriments the absorption rate of EU funds, and generates vulnerable employment and brain drain. This study estimates that if EU member states would all manage to control corruption at the Danish level, tax collection in Europe would increase by 323 billion Euro per year - double of the EU budget for 2013.}, language = {en} }