Die Kritik an einem wettbewerbsverzerrenden Industriestrompreis ist im Kanzleramt offensichtlich nicht auf taube Ohren gestoßen. Trotzdem bleiben eine Kritikpunkte stehen: Denn auf langer Sicht hilft das Strompreispaket weder Unternehmen noch Verbraucher*innen. Dieser Gastbeitrag von Lea Bernhardt und Tomaso Duso erschien am 11. November 2023 auf Focus Online. Das Strompreispaket der Ampel-Koalition ...
The acquisitions of startups by Google, Amazon, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have steadily increased over the past years and have become more diversified. The current discussion about strategic motives for such acquisitions is vivid – especially in light of present concerns about the market power of gatekeepers, faster technological advances and digitalization. The principal question remains whether...
Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Research Day At this BCCP Research Day (formerly known as BCCP Forum), Fellows will give short pitches of their current research. Since we also want to have enough time for discussions and networking, we plan long coffee breaks between the presentation sessions as well as get-together afterwards. The event will bring together all...
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart...
DIW-Studie untersucht mögliche Datensammlung von Digitalunternehmen – Alle profitieren von zusätzlichen Daten, Google-Betreiber Alphabet am meisten – Datenmenge des Google-Konzerns könnte zu unüberwindbaren Marktschranken führen – frühzeitige Regulierung geboten, Lehren in Bezug auf neue datenbasierte Technologien wie ChatGPT Der US-Digitalkonzern Alphabet, Betreiber der Google-Dienste, könnte nicht ...
This paper studies how bargaining power is affected by merger and divestiture policies. I provide a new empirical framework to compute bounds on brand-level bargaining weights using widely available sales data. Next, I exploit the variation in brand ownership caused by a large merger, cleared conditional on divestiture, in the U.S. deodorant market, to quantify the extent to which divestitures...
What is the “right” geographic definition of relevant markets? We study how unexpected and exogenous increases in excise duties in petroleum products were passed-through to retail prices in the Athens region and examine how the degree of the pass-through varies across different geographic relevant markets. Using various definitions of the relevant geographic market, we find that the most...
