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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and WZB which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the...
13.03.2015
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Forschungsprojekt
Die Förderung von Verbraucherrechten, Prosperität und Wohlstand sind Grundwerte der Europäischen Union. Eine ganze Bandbreite von Gesetzen, Institutionen und Regulierungen – die unter dem Begriff Verbraucherpolitiken zusammengefasst werden können – haben das Ziel Konsumenten zu schützen, indem sie sicherstellen, dass angemessene und vertrauensvolle...
Wiederkehrendes Projekt| Unternehmen und Märkte
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Forschungsprojekt
Promoting consumers’ rights, prosperity, and wellbeing are core values of the European Union. A wide array of laws, institutions, and regulations – which can be generally termed as consumer policies – aim at protecting consumers by ensuring adequate and truthful information in the marketplace as well as preventing firms from engaging in unfair and competition-impairing practices....
Wiederkehrendes Projekt| Unternehmen und Märkte
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Diskussionspapiere 1531 / 2015
This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service production function for the retail sector is derived with labour and external services as the main inputs. A structural ...
2015| Caroline Stiel, Astrid Cullmann, Maria Nieswand
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DIW Berlin - Politikberatung kompakt 101 / 2015
2015| Ulrike Lehr, Philip Ulrich, Christian Lutz, Ines Thobe, Dietmar Edler, Marlene O'Sullivan, Sonja Simon, Tobias Naegler, Uwe Pfenning, Frank Peter, Fabian Sakowski, Peter Bickel
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DIW Wochenbericht 28 / 2015
2015| Tomaso Duso, Vanessa von Schlippenbach
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Diskussionspapiere 1460 / 2015
We analyze a client's choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for cases. The distinguishing feature is that lawyers may submit bids with any fee arrangement they prefer: an hourly rate, a fixed fee or a \mixed fee," which is a time-capped fixed fee plus an hourly rate for any additional hours should the case take longer than expected. This format of selling legal services is unusual ...
2015| Flóra Felsö, Sander Onderstal, Jo Seldeslachts
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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, WZB, Humboldt University Berlin, and Technical University Berlin which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant...
26.09.2014
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Video
Was haben Wettbewerbspolitik und Produktivität miteinander zu tun? Dieser Frage ist der Industrieökonom Tomaso Duso nachgegangen. Je besser der Wettbewerb funktioniert, desto höher die Produktivität - das könnte man auf den ersten Blick meinen. Aber ganz so einfach ist es dann doch nicht. Denn die Probleme liegen wie so oft im Detail. Tomaso Duso hat sie sich angeschaut...
16.07.2014| Nachgeforscht
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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, WZB, Humboldt University Berlin, and Technical University Berlin which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant...
13.03.2014