1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-050 // 2017

    The Internet Effects on Sex Crime and Murder – Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

    This paper studies the effects of the introduction of a new mass medium on criminal activity in Germany. The paper asks the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Fuel for inequality: Distributional effects of environmental reforms on private transport

    This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. In…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2017

    Forecasting the distributions of hourly electricity spot prices - Accounting for serial correlation patterns and non-normality of price distributions

    We present a stochastic modelling approach to describe the dynamics of hourly electricity prices. The suggested methodology is a stepwise combination of several mathematical operations to adequately characterize…