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Pressemitteilung
Studie zum Mobilfunknetzausbau in dünn besiedelten Regionen vergleicht drei Kooperationsmodelle – Weniger Kosten für Anbieter bei umfassendem Network Sharing, aber geringere Netzabdeckung – KonsumentInnen profitieren am stärksten von Roaming-Abkommen – Gebietsabsprachen zwischen Anbietern erhöhen Netzabdeckung – Behörden könnten Roaming-Abkommen ...
28.04.2021
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Germany is leading in green competitiveness of its product exports. Deploying the green economic complexity methodology using German AFiD firm-level micro data, this study seeks to analyze explanatory variables for this trend such as green R&D subsidies and subnational density of related green technologies in the light of path dependencies in firms accumulation of green capabilities. It...
12.03.2021| Nils Handler, DIW Berlin
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Common ownership - when an investor holds shares in two companies - has recently attracted significant attention from policy-makers and researchers, studying mainly US firms. European firms, however, are different as top investors with large stakes, like governments, founding families and foundations are much more prevalent. This paper takes a well-known common ownership measure derived from...
05.03.2021| Nuria Boot, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
We provide a description of ownership patterns in the top 25 European banks for the period 2003–2015, where we especially focus on the global financial crisis. Investment managers, such as Blackrock, are dominant in terms of number of block holdings in different banks, maintaining fairly stable “common ownership” networks throughout our sample. However, the financial crisis led...
05.03.2021| Jo Seldeslachts, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
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Diskussionspapiere 1987 / 2021
Since 2010, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM) have acquired more than 400 companies. Competition authorities did not scrutinize most of these transactions and blocked none. This raised concerns that GAFAM acquisitions target potential competitors yet fly under the radar of current merger control due to the features of the digital economy. We empirically study the competitive effects ...
2021| Pauline Affeldt, Reinhold Kesler
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Diskussionspapiere 1979 / 2021
Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and ...
2021| Pauline Affeldt, Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler, Joanna Piechucka
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
We study a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in pre-merger competitive conditions and thus in the merger outcomes. To define our control group, we account for selection on observables through a matching procedure. We observe that, after the merger, ...
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
79 (2021), 102789, 19 S.
| Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Roberto Cervone, Tomaso Duso, Allessia Marrazzo
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
The experimental literature on antitrust enforcement provides robust evidence that communication plays an important role for the formation and stability of cartels. We extend these studies through a design that distinguishes between innocuous communication and communication about a cartel, sanctioning only the latter. To this aim, we introduce a participant in the role of the competition authority, ...
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
76 (2021), 102728, 25 S.
| Maximilian Andres, Lisa Bruttel, Jana Friedrichsen
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DIW Wochenbericht 33 / 2021
In den letzten Jahrzehnten kam es auf vielen europäischen Krankenhausmärkten zu einer Fusionswelle, die zu einer zunehmenden Marktkonzentration geführt hat. Die Auswirkungen von Krankenhausfusionen und die wirksame Durchsetzung von Wettbewerbsrecht wurden von der Politik diskutiert, aber wissenschaftlich nicht ausreichend beleuchtet. Im vorliegenden Bericht wird anhand des französischen Krankenhaussektors ...
2021| Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Joanna Piechucka