This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: High and growing prescription drug costs in the United States are a major concern for policy makers. This paper focuses on the extent to which promotional gifts and other transfers made to physicians by pharmaceutical companies cause physicians to prescribe more...
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, 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 of Berlin, one of...
Ziel des Projekts ist die Erstellung einer Studie zu den Auswirkungen von Wohnungsmarktzyklen auf die Lebensumstände von Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern. Betrachtet werden die Aspekte Wohnkosten, Lebenszufriedenheit, Gefährdungswahrnehmung und Einschätzung des politischen Handlungsbedarfs und dessen Wirksamkeit im Verlauf der Wohnungsmarktentwicklung. Die genannten Faktoren...
On 2 June 2020 DG Competition of the European Commission published several support studies on the retrospective evaluation of State aid rules. This “Fitness check” will serve as a basis for future Commission’s decisions about whether to further prolong or update the rules expiring in 2020. The consortium of DIW Berlin, Lear, Sheppard Mullin and UEA Consulting under the leadership ...
Am 2. Juni 2020 veröffentlichte die GD Wettbewerb der Europäischen Kommission mehrere Studien zur Evaluierung der Regeln für staatlichen Beihilfen. Dieser “Fitness check” dient der Kommission als Grundlage für künftige Entscheidungen darüber, ob die im Jahr 2020 auslaufenden Vorschriften verlängert oder aktualisiert werden sollten.Das Konsortium von DIW ...
This is an online seminar using Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: Antibiotic resistance is a severe problem within our current health systems. One of the main strategies to combat the rise of antibiotic resistance is to improve individual physicians' antibiotic prescribing practices. However, this strategy requires that differences in...
Abstract: User generated content is increasingly substituting content created by professionals. Local news that is generated by citizen journalists could be a promising way of supporting the struggling newspaper industry by reducing costs for professional journalists. We study a network of 122 local Austrian newspapers operating a hybrid model of citizen and professional journalism. We first...
Dieser Gastbeitrag ist am 5. Juni 2020 in der Süddeutschen Zeitung erschienen., Das Konjunkturpaket ist ein guter Start, aber es wird viel zu wenig für Investitionen getan. Die sind wichtig für Deutschlands Zukunft. Besonders zwei Felder erfordern nämlich zusätzliche Anstrengungen. Das von der Koalition beschlossene Konjunkturprogramm enthält viele sinnvolle Elemente. ...
This is an online seminar using Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: Cities worldwide have regulated the peer-to-peer short-term rental market claiming that those markets remove apartments from the long-term housing market, causing an increase in rents. However, at the time many of these policies were passed, empirical evidence for or...
Abstract: We study competition between Airbnb and hotel accommodations in Paris in 2017 to assess the welfare implications of Airbnb’s presence on hotels and travelers. The existing literature on the subject exclusively uses across city variation in Airbnb diffusion. Consequently, it does not take into account that the location of an accommodation within a city might be an important...
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