%0 Journal Article %8 28.11.2017 %M 9012986 %T Die Fiskalunion ist mehr als ein Versicherungsprodukt: Kommentar %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 1106 %Z Sb 89 Wochenbericht %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.571877.de/17-48-5.pdf %+ Philipp Engler %A Engler, Philipp %N 48 %P 1999-11-30 %V 84 %B DIW Wochenbericht %B 84 (2017), 48, S. 1106 %K Wirtschaftszweige;Geld und Finanzmärkte;Geldpolitik;Eurozone;Europa;Versicherung;Themenliste Geldpolitik %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/172285 %0 Journal Article %8 25.07.2017 %M 9012438 %T The Concentration in the Investor Market Has Intensified: Eight Questions for Jo Seldeslachts %G Englisch %D 2017 %P S. 312 %Z Sb 89 DIW Econ. %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.562471.de/diw_econ_bull_2017-30-2.pdf %A Seldeslachts, Jo;Wittenberg, Erich %N 30 %P 1999-11-30 %V 7 %B DIW Economic Bulletin %B 7 (2017), 30, S. 312 %K Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensorganisation;Wirtschaftszweige;Eigentümerstruktur;Unternehmen;Private Investition;Deutschland %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/167693 %0 Journal Article %8 25.07.2017 %M 9012434 %T Die Konzentration im Investorenmarkt hat sich erhöht: Interview mit Jo Seldeslachts %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 622 %Z Sb 89 Wochenbericht %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.562462.de/17-30-2.pdf %A Seldeslachts, Jo;Wittenberg, Erich %N 30 %P 1999-11-30 %V 84 %B DIW Wochenbericht %B 84 (2017) 30, S. 622 %K Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensorganisation;Eigentümerstruktur;Unternehmen;Deutschland ;Private Investition;Wirtschaftszweige %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/167696 %0 Journal Article %8 25.07.2017 %M 9012433 %T Veränderungen bei gemeinsamen Eigentümerstrukturen deutscher Unternehmen %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 611-621 %Z Sb 89 Wochenbericht %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.562460.de/17-30-1.pdf %+ Jo Seldeslachts, Melissa Newham, Albert Banal-Estanol %A Seldeslachts, Jo;Newham, Melissa;Banal-Estanol, Albert %X Die Eigentümerstrukturen börsennotierter deutscher Unternehmen haben sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich verändert. Von besonderem Interesse ist dabei das Phänomen der gemeinsamen Eigentümerstrukturen, das international mit dem Begriff "Common Ownership" bezeichnet wird. Dabei werden Unternehmen, die auf denselben Gütermärkten miteinander im Wettbewerb stehen, von denselben Investoren gehalten. In diesem Wochenbericht wird gezeigt, dass inländische institutionelle Investoren seit dem Jahr 2007 von einigen großen ausländischen Investoren überholt wurden. Letztere nehmen heute Spitzenpositionen ein, sowohl im Hinblick auf den Marktwert der Beteiligungen als auch auf die Anzahl großer Beteiligungspakete. Die Beteiligungskonzentration hat in Deutschland insgesamt zugenommen. Gleichzeitig wird noch immer mehr als die Hälfte des deutschen Aktienkapitals von privaten und staatlichen Anlegern mit wenigen aber großen Beteiligungen gehalten. Am Beispiel zweier führender Wirtschaftszweige – der chemischen Industrie und der Automobilindustrie – zeigt sich, dass sich die Entwicklungen der Eigentümerschaft und des Grads an Common Ownership von Branche zu Branche stark unterscheiden können. Die Auswirkungen gemeinsamer Eigentümerstrukturen auf Wettbewerb, Innovationen und Verbraucherinteressen können von vorneherein nicht eindeutig bestimmt werden. Branchen mit einer höheren Beteiligungskonzentration, wie etwa die chemische Industrie, sollten aber von Politik, Wissenschaft und Regulierungsbehörden stärker beachtet werden. %N 30 %P 1999-11-30 %V 84 %B DIW Wochenbericht %B 84 (2017) 30, S. 611-621 %K D43;G23;K21;L62;L65 %K Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensorganisation;Eigentümerstruktur;Unternehmen;Deutschland ;Private Investition;Wirtschaftszweige %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/167697 %0 Journal Article %8 25.07.2017 %M 9012437 %T Changes in Common Ownership of German Companies %G Englisch %D 2017 %P S. 303-311 %Z Sb 89 DIW Econ. %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.562469.de/diw_econ_bull_2017-30-1.pdf %+ Jo Seldeslachts, Melissa Newham, Albert Banal-Estanol %A Seldeslachts, Jo;Newham, Melissa;Banal-Estanol, Albert %X Ownership of publicly listed German companies has undergone significant changes in recent years. The aim of this report is to document these trends since 2007 and analyze the extent to which firms that compete in the same product market are owned by the same investors, which is known as common ownership. We show that some large foreign institutional investors have overtaken domestic investors and now occupy the top spots. This is true both in terms of value and the number of blockholdings, i.e. large blocks of shares.In addition, there has been an increase in ownership concentration overall. That said, private and governmental investors with few but large holdings, still own more than half of German equity. Using two leading industries, the chemical and car industries, we show that ownership trends and levels of common ownership can be very different across industries. While it is unclear a priori what common ownership implies for competition, innovation, and consumer welfare, markets that show more common ownership, such as the chemical sector, deserve more attention from policy makers, regulators, and academics alike. %N 30 %P 1999-11-30 %V 7 %B DIW Economic Bulletin %B 7 (2017), 30, S. 303-311 %K D43;G23;K21;L62;L65 %K Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensorganisation;Wirtschaftszweige;Eigentümerstruktur;Unternehmen;Private Investition;Deutschland %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/167692 %0 Journal Article %8 15.03.2017 %M 9011859 %T Die Hochzeit von Opel und PSA: eine Chance für den Industriestandort Europa: Kommentar %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 220 %Z Sb 89 Wochenbericht %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.554464.de/17-11-6.pdf %+ Tomaso Duso, Martin Gornig %A Duso, Tomaso;Gornig, Martin %N 11 %P 1999-11-30 %V 84 %B DIW Wochenbericht %B 84 (2017), 11, S. 220 %K Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung;Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensorganisation;Wirtschaftszweige;Unternehmenszusammenschluss;Kraftfahrzeugindustrie;Wettbewerbspolitik;Deutschland ;Frankreich;Europa %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/157320 %0 Journal Article %8 01.02.2017 %M 9011589 %T Civil Liberties vs. Security: Why Citizens Accept or Reject Digital Security Measures %G Englisch %D 2017 %P S. 292-313 %Z DIWDok %F Aufsatz %F RefSSCI %1 DIW2017 %+ Mathias Bug, Sebastian Bukow %A Bug, Mathias;Bukow, Sebastian U. %X Fundamental changes to security policy in European democracies raise the question of the acceptance of new security measures. This paper aims to explain why new measures are accepted (or not). It combines three core elements that are typically analysed separately in the literature: individual attitudes (especially trust), social context and cost/benefit balancing. Comparing Germany and the UK, the model is tested using data from two countries with different societal perceptions of two prototypical security measures: communications data retention and passenger name records. The analysis confirms that trust is crucial, but in a more complex way than usually argued. Trust in specific institutions and actors, related to the specific security measure, is decisive for acceptance. Furthermore, individual cost/benefit balancing is also important for acceptance. Consequently, our model shows that a more detailed analysis than in former studies is needed for understanding the acceptance of security measures in European democracies such as Germany and the UK. %N 2 %P 1999-11-30 %V 26 %B German Politics %B 26 (2017), 2, S. 292-313 %K Soziales und Gesundheit;Wirtschaftszweige;Terrorismus;Sicherheit;Sicherheitspolitik;Computerunterstützung;Datensicherheit;Internationale Sicherheit;Vertrauen;Deutschland ;Großbritannien %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2016.1226811 %0 Journal Article %8 19.01.2017 %M 9011550 %T Companies Should Have More Women on All Levels of the Hierarchy: Seven Questions for Elke Holst %G Englisch %D 2017 %P S. 29 %Z Sb 89 DIW Econ. %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.550600.de/diw_econ_bull_2017-01-3.pdf %A Holst, Elke;Wittenberg, Erich %N 1/2 1/2 %P 2000-01-02 %V 7 %B DIW Economic Bulletin %B 7 (2017), 1/2, S. 29 %K Arbeit und Beschäftigung;Demographie und Bevölkerung;Frauenerwerbstätigkeit;Aufsichtsrat;Führungskräfte;Management;Geschlecht;Aktiengesellschaft;Deutschland ;Themenliste Frauen im Erwerbsleben;Wirtschaftszweige;Finanzsektor %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149807 %0 Journal Article %8 10.01.2017 %M 9011463 %T Unternehmen sollten alle Hierarchieebenen stärker mit Frauen besetzen: Interview mit Elke Holst %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 31 %Z Sb 89 Wochenbericht %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.550247.de/17-1-3.pdf %A Holst, Elke;Wittenberg, Erich %N 1/2 1/2 %P 2000-01-02 %V 84 %B DIW Wochenbericht %B 84 (2017), 1/2, S. 31 %K Arbeit und Beschäftigung;Demographie und Bevölkerung;Wirtschaftszweige;Frauenerwerbstätigkeit;Aufsichtsrat;Führungskräfte;Management;Geschlecht;Finanzsektor;Aktiengesellschaft;Deutschland ;Themenliste Frauen im Erwerbsleben %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149850 %0 Journal Article %8 19.01.2017 %M 9011549 %T Financial Sector: Banks Fall behind and Now Have a Lower Proportion of Women on Executive and Advisory Boards than Insurance Companies %G Englisch %D 2017 %P S. 16-28 %Z Sb 89 DIW Econ. %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.550598.de/diw_econ_bull_2017-01-2.pdf %+ Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich %A Holst, Elke;Wrohlich, Katharina %X Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector’s top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin’s Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated compared to last year. Since 2010, when the discussion about the gender quota for supervisory boards gained momentum, growth has been relatively flat — particularly in comparison to the top 100 companies outside the financial sector. At insurance companies, the proportion of women on supervisory boards was a solid 22 percent (an increase of around three percentage points). This puts insurance companies ahead of banks for the first time since 2006. Also of note: companies whose supervisory boards contained one-third women were not able to increase this number in 2016. Extrapolating from the past decade, supervisory boards of banks would need 50 years for the ratio of women to men to be equal. Gender parity in executive boards would be reached in 80 years. The proportion of women on executive boards remained very low overall as it reached roughly ten percent at insurance companies and eight percent at banks. %N 1/2 1/2 %P 2000-01-02 %V 7 %B DIW Economic Bulletin %B 7 (2017), 1/2, S. 16-28 %K G2;J16;J78;L32;M14;M51 %K Arbeit und Beschäftigung;Demographie und Bevölkerung;Frauenerwerbstätigkeit;Aufsichtsrat;Führungskräfte;Management;Geschlecht;Aktiengesellschaft;Deutschland ;Themenliste Frauen im Erwerbsleben;Wirtschaftszweige;Finanzsektor %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149808 %0 Journal Article %8 10.01.2017 %M 9011462 %T Finanzsektor: Banken fallen zurück: Frauenanteil jetzt auch in Aufsichtsräten geringer als bei Versicherungen %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 17-30 %Z Sb 89 Wochenbericht %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %U http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.550245.de/17-1-2.pdf %+ Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich %A Holst, Elke;Wrohlich, Katharina %X Nach wie vor sind Frauen in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors deutlich in der Minderheit. Dem Managerinnen-Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren die Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte der 100 größten Banken Ende des Jahres 2016 zu gut 21 Prozent mit Frauen besetzt. Damit stagnierte der Anteil gegenüber dem vorangegangenen Jahr. Auffallend ist die geringere Dynamik nach dem Jahr 2010 im Vergleich zu den Top-100-Unternehmen außerhalb der Finanzbranche – damals nahm die Diskussion um die Frauenquote in Aufsichtsräten Fahrt auf. Bei den Versicherungen betrug der Frauenanteil in den Aufsichtsgremien gut 22 Prozent – ein Anstieg um rund drei Prozentpunkte. Erstmals seit Beginn der Erhebung des DIW Berlin im Jahr 2006 lagen die Versicherungen damit vor den Banken. Auffallend ist, dass sich Unternehmen, deren Aufsichtsräte bereits zuvor zu einem Drittel mit Frauen besetzt waren, diesbezüglich im Jahr 2016 tendenziell nicht mehr steigern konnten. Schreibt man die Entwicklung der vergangenen zehn Jahre linear fort, würde es in den Aufsichtsräten der Banken noch ein halbes Jahrhundert dauern, bis Frauen und Männer gleichermaßen vertreten sind. In den Vorständen wäre das sogar erst in über 80 Jahren der Fall. Der Frauenanteil blieb mit fast zehn Prozent bei den Versicherungen und gut acht Prozent bei den Banken insgesamt sehr niedrig. %X Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector’s top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin’s Women Executive Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated compared to last year. Since 2010, when the discussion about the gender quota for supervisory boards gained momentum, growth has been relatively flat – particularly in comparison to the top 100 companies outside the financial sector. At insurance companies, the proportion of women on supervisory boards was a solid 22 percent (an increase of around three percentage points). This puts insurance companies aheadof banks for the first time since 2006. The proportion of women on executive boards is almost ten percent at insurance companies and eight percent at banks. Overall, these levels areextremely low, and at the end of 2016 none of the corporate groups in the study had reached the ten-percent mark. Also of note: companies whose supervisory boards contained one-third women were not able to increase this number in 2016. Extrapolating from the past decade, supervisory boards of banks would need 50 years for the ratio of women to men to be equal. Gender parity in executive boards would be reached in 80 years. %N 1/2 1/2 %P 2000-01-02 %V 84 %B DIW Wochenbericht %B 84 (2017), 1/2, S. 17-30 %K G2;J16;J78;L32;M14;M51 %K Arbeit und Beschäftigung;Demographie und Bevölkerung;Wirtschaftszweige;Frauenerwerbstätigkeit;Aufsichtsrat;Führungskräfte;Management;Geschlecht;Finanzsektor;Deutschland ;Themenliste Frauen im Erwerbsleben %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149847 %0 Book %8 29.06.2017 %M 9012314 %T Three Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization in Grocery Retailing: Dissertation %G Englisch %D 2017 %P IX, 140 S. %Z DIWDok %F Mono %F Sac %1 DIW2017 %+ Anna Lu %A Lu, Anna %X In the first essay, titled “Retail Mergers and Assortment Repositioning”, I study how supermarkets compete in product variety and what this means for merger control. Authorities previously focused their attention on price effects of mergers. However, the recent years saw a shift in attention: For example, the new U.S. Horizontal Merger Guidelines (2010), issued by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, now emphasize the importance of merger effects on product variety. So far, the literature has found ambiguous effects of mergers on store level assortment, i.e. the average number of products carried by a store (Pires and Trindade 2015; Argentesi et al. 2016). I extend the analysis to look at strategic repositioning between stores. I study a series of local mergers in the U.S. and find that, while mergers increased store-level assortment by 7.4%, they also increased the assortment overlap between stores by 3%, suggesting that gains from business-stealing exceeded losses from cannibalization. Effectively, a merger raised the number of available products in the average market by 6.9%, i.e. mergers, on average, improved consumer access to variety. The analysis is based on a data-driven market definition: Unlike the existing literature, I use machine-learning methods to cluster stores into local markets according to their geographic location, thus yielding highly flexible markets. All in all, the findings in this chapter support the notion that product variety is an important factor in merger control. Merger effects on store-level assortments tell only one part of the story – in order to get the full picture, regulators should also look at the merger effect on substitutability between stores. This is particularly relevant in industries in which consumers switch frequently between stores and in which store assortment is one of the major drivers of shopper patronage (Hoch, Bradlow and Wansink 1999; Fox, Montgomery and Lodish 2004; Briesch, Chintagunta and Fox 2009). The second essay, titled “Consumer Stockpiling and Sales Promotions”, looks at consumer stockpiling and retailer pricing in storable goods markets. It builds on the well-established finding that consumers tend to stockpile for future use when they face price promotions, anticipating that prices will go up in later periods. While the literature has developed sophisticated models to describe and estimate such forward-looking consumer behavior (e.g. Erdem, Imai and Keane 2003; Hendel and Nevo 2006; Seiler 2013), there is very little empirical work on how retailers should respond to it, and in particular, how they should best design promotions. I am the first to compare the effects of promotion length with the effects of promotion depth on long-run consumer purchases and seller revenues. I study the U.S. laundry detergent market which is characterized by frequent price promotions and substantial consumer stockpiling. I estimate a dynamic discrete-choice model of strategic stockpiling in which consumers are forward-looking with rational expectations over future prices. Consumers can keep storage but incur storage costs. I use the estimates from this model to simulate pricing policies of varying promotion length and depth. I find that, in the detergent market, the revenue elasticity with respect to promotion depth is about four times larger than with respect to promotion length. My results suggest that retailers should increase promotion depth rather than length in markets with steady consumption rates, few demand shocks, and large heterogeneity in storage costs and price sensitivity. The third essay, titled “Inference of Consumer Consideration Sets”, investigates how consumers make decisions when they face a large number of alternatives and how the underlying, typically unobserved decision process can be inferred from observed choice data. It is motivated by the fact that, in the modern market place, consumers often have to choose from an overwhelmingly large variety of products. In order to simplify this decision problem, consumers tend to reduce the number of objectively available alternatives to a subset of relevant alternatives. The literature refers to this subset as a “consideration set”. In structural models of demand, we typically have to make assumptions about consideration sets because they are usually unobserved. However, these assumptions are not innocuous: If the consideration model is misspecified, the demand estimates can be severely biased (Sovinsky 2008; Draganska and Klapper 2011; Conlon and Mortimer 2013). I propose a novel framework to formally test any two competing models of consideration against one another in order to determine which model fits the data best. My test follows the intuition of a menu approach (e.g. Nevo 2001; Villas-Boas 2007) and uses supplemental data on marginal cost shifters to construct overidentifying restrictions. To illustrate my approach, I show an application to German grocery retailing in the categories of coffee and milk. Specifically, I test two popular models against each other. The first model is the workhorse model in empirical industrial organization; it assumes that consumers consider all products in the market. The second model is more popular in quantitative marketing research and models a two-stage consideration process in which consumers first choose a store and then choose a product within this store. I find that consideration sets differ fundamentally across product categories: The two-stage model outperforms the model of global consideration in the milk category but not in the coffee category. I relate this finding to differences in demand and supply conditions of the two product markets. %P 1999-11-30 %C Düsseldorf %I Universität Düsseldorf %K Wirtschaftszweige;Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung;Lebensmittelhandel;Unternehmenszusammenschluss;Verbraucher;Statistische Methode %U http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20170918-154917-9 %0 Book %8 28.05.2018 %M 9013717 %T Informal Support and Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the Interplay between Inter-Household Support Arrangements and Access to Alternative Risk Management Resources %G Englisch %D 2017 %P 177 S. : Anh. %Z DIWDok %F Mono %F Sac %1 DIW2017 %+ Friederike Lenel %A Lenel, Friederike %P 1999-11-30 %C Berlin %I Humboldt-Univ. %K Wirtschaftszweige;Private Haushalte und Familien %0 Journal Article %8 03.05.2016 %M 9009974 %T Shaking Dutch Grounds Won't Shatter the European Gas Market %G Englisch %D 2017 %P S. 520-529 %Z DIWDok %F Aufsatz %F RefSSCI %1 DIW2017 %+ Franziska Holz, Hanna Brauers, Philipp M. Richter, Thorsten Roobek %A Holz, Franziska;Brauers, Hanna;Richter, Philipp M.;Roobeek, Thorsten %X The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of a Russian export disruption. Lately, however, the Netherlands have suffered from a series of earthquakes that are related to the natural gas production in the major Groningen field. By consequence, natural gas production rates – that are politically mandated in the Netherlands – have been substantially reduced, by almost 45% in 2015 compared to 2013-levels. We implement this reduced production path for the next decades in the Global Gas Model and analyse the geopolitical impacts. We find that the diversification of European natural gas imports allows spreading the replacement of Dutch natural gas over many alternative sources, with diverse pipeline and LNG supplies. There will be hardly any price or demand reduction effect. Even if Russia fails to supply Europe, the additional impact of the lower Dutch production is moderate. Hence, the European consumers need not to worry about the declining Dutch natural gas production and their security of supplies. %P 1999-11-30 %V 64 %B Energy Economics %B 64 (2017), S. 520-529 %K C69;L71;Q34 %K Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik;Energieökonomik;Wirtschaftszweige;Erdgas;Erdgasmarkt;Erschöpfbare Ressourcen;Gleichgewichtstheorie;Deutschland ;Niederlande;Europa %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2016.03.028 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202036 %0 Book Section %8 05.11.2018 %M 9014465 %T Fans: Entscheider oder Supporter?: Eine organisationssoziologische Analyse zur Mitbestimmung in Fußballclubs %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P S. 157-174 %Z DIWDok %F Aufsatz %F AufSam %1 DIW2017 %+ Lars Riedl, Marco Giesselmann %A Riedl, Lars;Giesselmann, Marco %P 1999-11-30 %B Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven der Fußballfanforschung %C Weinheim: Beltz, Juventa %D 2017 %K Bildung, Kultursektor, Non-Profit-Sektor;Sportökonomik;Wirtschaftszweige;Fußball %0 Book %8 02.03.2018 %M 9013401 %T Strukturdaten zur Produktion und Beschäftigung im Baugewerbe: Berechnungen für das Jahr 2016 %G Deutsch %D 2017 %P I, 116 S. %Z DIWDok %F Stück %F Sac %1 DIW2017 %+ Martin Gornig, Bernd Görzig, Claus Michelsen, Hella Steinke, Christian Kaiser, Katrin Klarhöfer %A Gornig, Martin;Görzig, Bernd;Michelsen, Claus;Steinke, Hella;Kaiser, Christian;Klarhöfer, Katrin %P 1999-11-30 %V 2016 %C Bonn %I BBSR %B BBSR-Online-Publikation ; 2017, 15 %K Arbeit und Beschäftigung;Wirtschaftszweige;Bauen und Wohnen;Produktion;Beschäftigung;Baustatistik;Deutschland %0 Journal Article %8 12.04.2018 %M 9013556 %T El Tribunal Supremo y los casos por negligencias médicas en Espana %G Sonstige %D 2017 %P S. 2-13 %Z DIWDok %F Aufsatz %F Aufsatz %1 DIW2017 %+ Sofia Amaral-Garcia %A Amaral-Garcia, Sofia %X This short paper focuses on outcomes of medical malpractice claims decided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Section 1 provides a brief introduction to the problem of medical malpractice. Section 2 describes the dataset and provides an overview of the main results in Amaral-Garcia and Garoupa (2015) and in Amaral-Garcia (2015a). The former assesses whether administrative courts can favor the government (i.e., whenever the medical accident took place in a public hospital) in medical malpractice cases. The later focuses on non-economic damages and tests for differences between administrative and civil decisions (in general terms, it tests whether courts award different non-economic amounts to patients suffering harm in public and private hospitals). Section 3 briefly considers which medical specialties are more commonly sued and makes a comparison with other jurisdictions. Section 4 analyses the impact of legal reforms introduced in 1998 and 1999, which aimed at reducing the duration of legal claims. Finally, conclusions are presented in section 5. %P 1999-11-30 %V 151 %B Papeles de economía española %B 151 (2017), S. 2-13 %K Soziales und Gesundheit;Wirtschaftszweige;Rechtsprechung;Spanien;Medizinische Behandlung;Schuldrecht;Zivilprozess;Verwaltungsrecht