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Big data is transforming the world we live in. The instant availability of information impacts how individuals consume, how businesses thrive or fail, how society makes scientific discoveries, as well as how governments design and implement informed policies. At a pace and scale unanticipated 20 years ago, information technology is enabling consumers globally. Uncountable services make use of a...
17.06.2016| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Individuals value privacy, socializing, and disclosing. These conflicting actions raise important issues for individuals and regulators. This session surveys the economic foundations of privacy relying on insights from economic theory and empirical evidence. How much do consumers value privacy? Do (or should) consumers unambiguously strive for stronger privacy protection? How have businesses...
17.06.2016| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Privacy concerns are receiving increased attention by both lawmakers and firms. What are firms doing to protect the privacy of their customers? Are firms responding to market forces? To regulatory pressure? To other forces? This panel will explore the interaction between regulation, markets and other forces, and its implications for optimal legal policy.
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
Professor of...
17.06.2016| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Unprecedented interconnectedness, data collection, and analytical capabilities are revolutionizing our interactions in society. Online platforms play a key role in this process as they shape the way consumers and firms use and commercialize the Internet. In data-driven platforms, product quality, for example search results and the targeting of advertisements, increases in the amount of data...
17.06.2016| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Privacy regulation in digital markets has been at the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic in the past years. This panel will discuss such issues as the EU-US Privacy Shield following the Safe Harbor ruling of the ECJ, the conditions for voluntary consumer consent to the processing of personal data, efforts to ensure individuals’ control over personal data collected by data...
17.06.2016| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Nicolas Ziebarth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. He studied economics and business studies at HU and TU Berlin and was a member of the first DIW Graduate Center cohort from 2006 to 2011. During this time, Nicolas Ziebarth worked in the SOEP department at DIW Berlin. His dissertation, entitled “Sickness Absence and Economic...
21.07.2017| SOEP People
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Statement by DIW president Marcel Fratzscher about the results of the German federal election 2017.
25.09.2017| Spotlight
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Ein Statement von DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher zum Ausgang der Bundestagswahl 2017.
25.09.2017| Spotlight
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mit Cem Özdemir, Bundesvorsitzender von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2017 | 19:00 Uhr
Podiumsdiskussion mit:
Cem Özdemir, Bundesvorsitzender von Bündnis 90/Die GrünenProf. Dr. Naika Foroutan, Stellvertretende Direktorin des BIMProf. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D., Präsident des DIW BerlinModeration durch Esra Kücük, Leiterin Gorki Forum
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25.07.2017| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Wie kann man die Bürgerinnen und Bürger, die untere und mittlere Einkommen beziehen, steuerlich entlasten? „Indem man die Mehrwertsteuer senkt“, schreibt Steuerexperte Stefan Bach im DIW Wochenbericht 31/2017. „Eine Senkung des Mehrwertsteuer-Regelsatzes um einen Prozentpunkt auf 18 Prozent würde die Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher um elf Milliarden Euro entlasten...
02.08.2017| Nachgeforscht