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Wettbewerb und Monopole: „Der Staat muss Marktmacht begrenzen“

Ob Bier, Züge oder Big Tech – Tomaso Duso kennt die Mechanismen, die Märkte zum Kippen bringen. Als Leiter der Abteilung Unternehmen und Märkte am DIW Berlin und Vorsitzender der Monopolkommission erklärt er, warum freier Wettbewerb klare Regeln braucht, wie Kartelle Verbraucher*innen schädigen und weshalb starke Regulierung nicht Gegner, sondern Garant wirtschaftlicher Innovation ist. „Der Markt ...

Entrepreneurship und Organisation

Das DIW Berlin freut sich, am 17. und 18. November 2025 den Workshop „Entrepreneurship and Organisation” auszurichten. Der Workshop bringt Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Bereichen Wirtschaft, Management und Organisationsforschung zusammen, um zu diskutieren, wie organisatorische Entscheidungen die Leistung und Entwicklung von unternehmerischen Vorhaben und kleinen Unternehmen beeinflussen.

Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Organization

DIW Berlin is pleased to host the Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Organization on November 17–18, 2025. The workshop will bring together scholars from economics, management, and organizational studies to discuss how organizational choices shape the performance and evolution of entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses.

Refugees Are Feeling Increasingly Unwelcome and Perceiving Discrimination in the Labor and Housing Markets

The sentiment among refugees in Germany has changed significantly: Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2016 to 2023, it can be seen that refugees have been feeling increasingly unwelcome since 2018, while their concerns about xenophobia have grown since 2019. In addition, cross-sectional data from 2022 refugees’ subjective experiences of discrimination in the workplace and when searching for ...

Refugees are feeling increasingly unwelcome and becoming more concerned about xenophobia

Dovish Coos or Hawkish Screech? From Central Bank Talk to Economic Walk

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) communication in shaping market expectations and real economic outcomes. Using a transformer-based large language model (LLM) fine-tuned to ECB communication, the tone of monetary policy statements from 2003 to 2025 is classified, constructing a novel ECB Communication Stance Indicator. This indicator contains forward-looking ...

Entscheidung im Google-Kartellverfahren: Großer Sieg für Big Tech, aber harter Schlag für den Wettbewerb

Ein US-Gericht hat gestern eine Zerschlagung von Google gestoppt. Tomaso Duso, Leiter der Abteilung Unternehmen und Märkte im DIW Berlin und Vorsitzender der Monopolkommission, äußert sich dazu wie folgt: 

Stock Market Participation, Work from Home, and Inequality

Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 - in Germany by about 25 %. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...

EU Power Market Reform Toward Locational Pricing: Rewarding Flexible Consumers for Resolving Transmission Constraints

The ongoing expansion of wind and solar electricity generation alongside increasing electrification is leading to a considerable strain on transmission capacities and grid bottlenecks in the EU. Coping with this challenge requires increasing system flexibility, e.g. by exploiting the potential for demand-side flexibility. However, in the current market design, demand-side flexibility responds to zonal ...

Cumulative Socioeconomic Risk Factors and Infant Temperament

Numerous studies in recent decades have shown a significant association bet-ween familiar socioeconomic status (SES) and child development. Less is known about the cumulative effects of socioeconomic risk factors, which may have a greater impact on child outcomes than single factors, especially in the first years of life. The study utilized latent mixture models to investigate the effects of socioeconomic ...