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Research Project
The aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive yet consistent and differentiated presentation of the production of construction services by the construction industry and other economic sectors and the demand for construction services in the form of investments and maintenance measures. On the demand side, the volume of new building construction is also quantified for the areas of residential...
Current Project| Firms and Markets, Macroeconomics
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Research Project
The project examines the development of markups in the construction sector against the backdrop of existing strucutral issues and the planned public investment initiative amounting to €500 billion. Inter alia, construction prices have increased significantly more strongly than overall consumer prices since 2010, while labor productivity has declined markedly over the same period.
This opposing...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Antibiotics have contributed to a tremendous increase in human well-being, saving many millions of lives. However, antibiotics become obsolete the more they are used as selection pressure promotes the development of resistant bacteria. The World Health Organization has proclaimed antibiotic resistance as a major global threat to public health. Today, 700,000 deaths per year are due to...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Promoting consumers’ rights, prosperity, and wellbeing are core values of the European Union. A wide array of laws, institutions, and regulations – which can be generally termed as consumer policies – aim at protecting consumers by ensuring adequate and truthful information in the marketplace as well as preventing firms from engaging in unfair and competition-impairing practices. While some of...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The study offers a comprehensive retrospective assessment of the Aviation Guidelines related to State Aid, evaluating their effectiveness and efficiency in promoting regional development and enhancing accessibility while minimizing competitive distortions. The analysis focuses on three primary areas:
It examines whether the 2014–2024 transition period for phasing out operating aid to airports...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The main purpose of the project is to put together a comprehensive database including qualitative and quantitative information from past merger cases, which would enable DG Competition to produce statistical reports which could serve as an input to DG Competition's decision making practice in relation to EU merger control, both for operational and for policy purposes.
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The study will provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the impact of the State aid rules for banks, which will serve as evidence for the evaluation of the State aid rules applicable to banks in difficulty since their entry into force in end-2008.
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
In sectors of general interests, the economic activity of the state decreased over decades as a consequence of privatisation and liberalisation. Recently, local governments began to remunicipalise in the energy and water sector, thereby creating a new and modern generation of state-owned firms. These firms, however, differ in organisation and production environment from the state monopolists of...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an evidence-based framework for decision makers in policy and business. The project comprises several topics. DIW Berlin focuses on the analysis of the productivity effects of digitization.
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The European Commission (DG Competition) commissioned an international consortium of DIW Berlin together with E.CA Economics, LEAR, University of East Anglia and Sheppard Mullin with a background study on State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy. The results of the study will support the Commission in the revision of the EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Climate Policy
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Research Project
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Forecasting and Economic Policy
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Research Project
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
Scarce resources, the rising demand for agricultural products and growing land-use competition between the production of energy and food have increased the importance of strategies for food security. In the research project “Global Food Markets: Global Food Security – Challenges for Production and Consumption” both supply and demand-oriented approaches that can realize sustainable supply increases...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Public Economics
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Research Project
The project examines the transmission channels between public investment and private investment activity in Germany, estimating the aggregate relationship with econometric models, focusing on the specific effects of individual investment categories (e.g., R & D investment) and areas of responsibility (e.g., Defense, Education, Environment). In view of possible barriers to investment, another...
Completed Project| Forecasting and Economic Policy, Firms and Markets
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Research Project
As part of the evaluation process of the current State aid rules, the European Commission has awarded to the consortium of Lear, DIW Berlin, and Sheppard Mullin, a specific contract to carry out a study of the EU rules for State aid facilitating access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). These rules comprise the Guidelines on State aid to promote risk finance investments (RFG) and...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
As part of the evaluation process of the current State aid rules, the European Commission has awarded to the consortium of Lear, DIW Berlin, and Sheppard Mullin, a specific contract to carry out a study to support its evaluation of the rules regarding access of airports to operating aid under the EU Aviation Framework applicable as of 2014 (2014 Aviation Guidelines or the Guidelines). The study...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets