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Market Concentration in Europe: Evidence based on Antitrust Markets (cancelled)

Abstract:  An increasing body of empirical evidence has documented trends to risen concentration, profits, markups, and market power in many industries across the world since the 1980s. Several factors – such as globalisation, digitisation, the increased role of intangible assets and sunk costs, as well as M&A activity and the (under)enforcement of merger control– have been...

The CoRisk-Index: A data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk assessments related to COVID-19 in real-time

This event takes place online via Zoom. Abstract:  While the coronavirus spreads around the world, governments are attempting to reduce contagion rates at the expense of negative economic effects. Market expectations have plummeted, foreshadowing the risk of a global economic crisis and mass unemployment. Governments provide huge financial aid programmes to mitigate the expected economic...

Common Ownership, Markups and Productivity: Evidence from European Firms

This is an online seminar using Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:  This paper analyzes the relationship between common ownership – when two firms are partially held by the same investor – and markups. Combining firm-level financial data from Europe with ownership data of publicly listed firms, we structurally estimate production...

Forschungsdatenzentrum Betriebs- und Organisationsdaten (FDZ-BO)

Das FDZ-BO am DIW Berlin ist ein zentrales Archiv für quantitative und qualitative Betriebs- und Organisationsdaten. Es archiviert diese, informiert über deren Bestand und stellt Datensätze für sekundäranalytische Zwecke zur Verfügung. Über die Archivierung von Studien und Datensätzen wird eine langfristige Sicherung und nachhaltige Verfügbarkeit der Daten gewährleistet. In Absprache mit den verantwortlichen ...

German Economy Needs to Invest More in Knowledge Capital

The efficiency of the German economy is powered by its knowledge-intensive industrial and services sectors. Yet the use of knowledge capital to drive innovation and productivity in Germany is rather low compared to other European countries and the United States. Germany is clearly lagging behind, especially in the services sector. The same applies to the industrial sector, where German businesses are ...

Public Investment a Key Prerequisite for Private Sector Activity

Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, in the euro area investment is still below the pre-crisis level. Public and private investment growth is so weak that capital per worker (capital intensity) has virtually remained constant. An increase in public investment activity could ultimately stimulate private investment. Estimates for the euro area show that an increase in public investment by one billion ...

Vielleicht hat der Erfolg die deutschen Unternehmen müde gemacht: Interview mit Martin Gornig

Pauline Affeldt has successfully defended her dissertation

Pauline Affeldt, who works at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Merger Control" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel  (Technische Universität Berlin).We ...

Pauline Affeldt has successfully defended her dissertation

Pauline Affeldt, who works at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Merger Control" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel  (Technische Universität Berlin).We ...

Energieverbrauch im ersten Halbjahr laut AG Energiebilanzen leicht gesunken

Die Expertinnen und Experten der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB) haben für das erste Halbjahr des laufenden Jahres einen leicht rückläufigen Energieverbrauch ermittelt – dieser sank demnach um 1,7 Prozent im Vergleich zu den ersten sechs Monaten des Vorjahres. Insbesondere wurde weniger Stein- und Braunkohle zu Energiezwecken verbraucht. Die Pressemitteilung mit ausführlichen ...