Anett Großmann represented the project team "Prosumer households" at the transfer workshop "Strengthening the citizens energy transition - innovation, participation and acceptance of local and regional initiatives" in Berlin (15 of…

The project prosumer households has been finalized with recommendations for policy and decision makers and shows how prosumer households can contribute to the energy transition. Recommendations [in German only] can be downloaded at…

The GWS Discussion Paper 16/8 contributes to the public dispute about the bracket creep and the need for tax reliefs by an analysis of the effects of a permanent proportional income tax reduction on the total economy as well as on the…

The International Association of Energy Economics founded a regional hub for Central Asia in Baku (Aug. 28 - Sept. 1). Ulrike Lehr presented at this conference results of a study on economic effects of energy efficiency the Eastern…

The question whether Germany is an immigration country or not has been in the scope of discussion for many years now. The commonly used term of net migration to illustrate this issue fails at showing what is going on exactly. A…

At the 34th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Dresden (21 - 27 August 2016) two GWS researchers - Britta Stöver and Thomas Drosdowski – have appealed to the expert audience…

Private households experience in average an increase in disposable income of about 19 Euro per month if their payments of income taxes is reduced by 3.1 %. However, the amount varies between only 1.90 Euro for unemployed and 39.70 Euro…

The 24th International Input-Output Conference was hosted this year in Seoul, South Korea, from July, 4th-8th. GWS was represented by Gerd Ahlert and Anke Mönnig. They presented research results to the topics global input-output…

Anett Großmann and Frank Hohmann have attended the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2016) in Toulouse and have presented the model and paper "E3.pt - An E3 PortableDyme model for Portugal". The…

The annual conference of the EcoMod network, the network of economic modelling, this year took place in Lisbon, Portugal. GWS participated with three people and four presentations. Britta Stoever spoke about her approach on Modelling the…