Thema Wettbewerb und Regulierung

Common Ownership Patterns in the European Banking Sector –The Impact of the Financial Crisis

The 18th Berlin IO Day

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...

Digital Economy Workshop Berlin, 2025

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from Economics, Information Systems, Law, Marketing, Strategy, and related fields who study Digitization. For inquiries dew2025@diw.de Event page

Trade Barriers and Market Power: Evidence from Argentina’s Discretionary Import Restrictions

Countries are increasingly turning to non-tariff barriers that are hard to measure and often illegal under WTO rules. What are the impacts of these policies, and what do they reveal about market power in international trade? We study a comprehensive system of discretionary import licenses imposed by Argentina, where we observe the universe of transaction-level requests and approval decisions...

Steering of Consumer Behavior by Conversational Artificial Intelligence

Conversational AI models are becoming increasingly popular and are about to replace traditional search engines for information retrieval and product discovery. This raises concerns about monetization strategies and the potential for subtle consumer manipulation. Companies may have financial incentives to steer users toward search results or products in a conversation in ways that are unnoticeable...

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Sondervermögen allein reichen nicht – Fünf dringende Maßnahmen für den Standort Deutschland

Deutschlands Wettbewerbsfähigkeit erodiert, weil die Standortbedingungen für Investitionen nicht mehr stimmen. Das diagnostizieren auch Union und SPD in ihrem Sondierungspapier. Leider zeigt sich, dass die darin vorgeschlagenen Maßnahmen unzureichend und von Partikularinteressen getrieben sind. Dabei müssen fünf wichtige Rahmenbedingungen gezielt verbessert werden: analoge sowie digitale Infrastruktur, ...

Wettbewerbsorientierte strategische Industriepolitik als Antwort auf den Investitionsstau in Deutschland

Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Industrie ist durch hohe Kosten, strukturelle Herausforderungen und globale Umbrüche stark unter Druck geraten. Gleichzeitig bleiben die Wege zur Rettung des Industriestandortes in den Parteiprogrammen weitgehend unklar. Die wenigen vorgeschlagenen Konzepte setzen auf Steuererleichterungen, allgemeine Investitionszuschüsse für heimische Unternehmen oder spezifische ...

Facts and Fiction in the Draghi Report

This article, part of our special On-Topic series on "A New Agenda for Growth: The Draghi Report and Competition Policy,"discusses the Draghi report’s assessment of European telecom markets, questioning its claims of underperformance and its recommendations for increased consolidation. It argues that easing merger control could harm competition and investment while highlighting positive proposals, ...

To Diversify or Not? The Link between Global Sourcing of ICT Goods And Firm Performance

We analyse variation in firm performance as a function of the international diversification of ICT imports by firms. Drawing on administrative data from 2010 and 2014 on nearly 4000 German manufacturing firms, we find that firms with ICT sourcing that is diversified across multiple countries perform better than similar, less-diversified firms. This finding holds true for two performance metrics (value ...