Expert workshop on the creation and uses of combined environmental and economic performance datasets at the micro-level - 10-11 July 2018 - OECD, Paris

1. GERMAN PRODUCTION CENSUS
– AMTLICHE FIRMENDATEN FÜR
DEUTSCHLAND (AFID)
Philipp Massier
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim
Paris, 10 July 2018

2. REGULATION AND COVERAGE
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Amtliche Firmendaten für Deutschland (AFiD)
Fee-based data access for researchers via research data centers
Module-based data set
Data is available since 1995 (depending on the survey 2003 or 2006)
Different surveys conducted on plant or firm level
 On plant & firm level: All German plants of firms with more than 20
employees (plant = local entity of a firm)
 Only on firm level (CSS): 20-500 employees representative sample of
firms, > 500 employees full sample (firm = legal entity)

3. COVERAGE AND MODULES
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 Plant & firm level:
 AFiD Panel Industrial Units (since 1995)
 40.000 firms/ 50.000 plants
 General information: turnover, employees, investment etc.
 AFiD Module Energy Use (since 2003)
 Information on energy use: electricity use, electricity self-generation, natural gas etc.
 AFiD Module Environmental Protection Investments (since 2006)
 Subsample (up to 10.000 plants)
 Information on investment in waste management, water conservation, noise abatement, air pollution
control, nature and landscape preservation, soil remediation, and climate protection.
 Firm level:
 Cost Structure Survey
 Annual data on cost structure, expenditures
 Random samples drawn every four years (20-500 employees)
 Data on firm level; approx. 15.000 observations

4. PUBLICATIONS AND PAST PROJECTS
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 The impacts of the EU ETS on efficiency and economic performance – An empirical
analyses for German manufacturing firms
 Löschel, Lutz, and Managi, forthcoming (Resource and Energy Economics)
 The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and Fuel Efficiency of Fossil Fuel Power
Plants in Germany
 Germeshausen, 2018 (DP)
 Drivers of Energy Efficiency in German Manufacturing: A Firm-level Stochastic Frontier
Analysis
 Löschel, Lutz, and Massier, 2017 (DP)
 Emissions Trading and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence from German Manufacturing
 Lutz, 2016 (R&R JEEM)
 The Effect of Electricity Taxation on the German Manufacturing Sector: A Regression
Discontinuity Approach
 Flues and Lutz, 2015 (DP)

5. CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS
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Kopernikus project: Energiewende Navigation System (ENavi)
 Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
 Prices as Climate Policy: Assessing the Causal Effect of Electricity Prices on
German Manufacturing Plants
 von Graevenitz, Lutz, and Massier
 Do voluntary environmental programs reduce emissions? EMAS in the German
manufacturing sector
 von Graevenitz, Kube, Löschel, and Massier

6. CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS
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Evaluating Policy Instruments for the Transformation to a Low
Carbon Economy: Causal Evidence from Administrative Micro Data -
TRACE
 Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
 Studying both quantitative and qualitative effects of climate policies on the
labor market

7. CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS
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Ex-Post Evaluation of Benefits and Costs of Environmental
Regulation
 Funding: German Environment Agency
 Identification of causal impacts of environmental policies on the German
industry (e.g. Industry Emissions Directive)
 Use of AFiD in combination with E-PRTR to identify impacts on firm
performance (economic & environmental)

8. DATA AND MERGE ISSUES
Identification and merge on plant level
 No shared plant level identifier between statistics
 Use of e.g. name matching is not allowed
 E-PRTR (plant and firm information), no useful identifier (only on firm level)
 EPER (2001&2004) & E-PRTR (starting 2007) different installation identifiers (in
German case)
Energy use data
 Disaggregated energy use (kWh) data on plant level (electricity, natural gas etc.)
 But no expenditure data (EUR) on plant level or fuel type
Data access only via research data centers (only on-site or by sending do-
files)
Very strict confidentiality regulation & enforcement
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9. THANK YOU
Philipp Massier
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim
Contact: philipp.massier@zew.de