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The 4th 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...

Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP)

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...

Leibniz ScienceCampus Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP)

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....

Productivity in Electricity Retail after Market Liberalisation: Analysing the Effects of Ownership and Firm's Governance Structure

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 ...

Beschäftigung durch erneuerbare Energien in Deutschland: Ausbau und Betrieb, heute und morgen; Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie

Warum Bundeswirtschaftsminister Gabriel der Übernahme von Kaiser’s Tengelmann durch EDEKA keine Ausnahmegenehmigung erteilen sollte: Kommentar

What Clients Want: Choices between Lawyers' Offerings

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 ...

The 3rd 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...

Nachgeforscht: bei Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso zu Wettbewerbspolitik und Produktivitätswachstum

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...

The 2nd 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...