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...
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...
Die Auswirkungen der Maßnahmen, um die Corona-Pandemie einzudämmen, sind vielfältig. Forscherinnen und Forscher des DIW Berlin untersuchen nicht nur konjunkturelle Folgen, sondern nehmen auch die übrigen Bereiche des Lebens in den Blick, zum Beispiel die Löhne derjenigen – zumeist Frauen – die systemrelevante Jobs haben, die Auswirkungen auf den Mietmarkt...
Researchers at DIW Berlin are taking a closer look at the economic effects of the ongoing 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Here you can find all DIW Berlin publications on the consequences of the pandemic, which are leaving deep marks on not only the global and German economies, but also on society itself.
Abstract: Trust is thought to be an important driver of economic growth and other economic outcomes. Previous studies suggest that trust may be a combination of risk attitudes, distributional preferences, betrayal aversion, and beliefs about the probability of being reciprocated. We compare the results of a binary trust game to the results of a series of control treatments that remove the...
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