Thema Wettbewerb und Regulierung

Ex Post Merger Evaluation in the U.K. Retail Market for Books

This paper evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major U.K. book retailers. We use a dataset containing monthly scanner data on a sample of 200 books in 50 local markets for four years around the merger. We compare the price changes after the merger in shops located in areas where both chains were present before the merger and in areas where only one chain was present. We also investigate ...

The 5th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international...

Wirtschaftsfaktor Umweltschutz: Erfassung der Umweltschutzbeschäftigung und Aktualisierung wichtiger Kenngrößen zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Umweltschutzwirtschaft

Environmental protection as an Economic Factor: Survey of Environmental Protection Employment and Updating of Important Indicators of the Competitiveness of the Environmental Protection Industry

Global Food Markets: Globale Ernährungssicherung – Herausforderungen für Produktion und Konsum

Knappe Ressourcen, die steigende Nachfrage nach Agrarprodukten sowie die zunehmende Landnutzungskonkurrenz zwischen Energie- und Nahrungsmittelproduktion lassen Strategien zur Ernährungssicherung immer bedeutender werden. In dem Forschungsprojekt "Global Food Markets: Globale Ernährungssicherung – Herausforderungen für Produktion und Konsum" werden angebots- und nachfrageseitige Ansätze untersucht...

Global Food Markets: Global Food Security - Challenge for Production and Consumption

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...

The 4th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the...

Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP)

Die Förderung von Verbraucherrechten, Prosperität und Wohlstand sind Grundwerte der Europäischen Union. Eine ganze Bandbreite von Gesetzen, Institutionen und Regulierungen – die unter dem Begriff Verbraucherpolitiken zusammengefasst werden können – haben das Ziel Konsumenten zu schützen, indem sie sicherstellen, dass angemessene und vertrauensvolle Informationen auf dem Markt zur Verfügung stehen...

Leibniz ScienceCampus Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP)

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...

Effective European Antitrust: Does EC Merger Policy Generate Deterrence

We estimate the deterrence effects of European Commission (EC) merger policy instruments over the 1990-2009 period. Our empirical results suggest that phase-1 remedies uniquely generate robust deterrence as – unlike phase-1 withdrawals, phase-2 remedies, and preventions – phase-1 remedies lead to fewer merger notifications in subsequent years. Furthermore, the deterrence effects of phase-1 remedies ...