Whether pro-social preferences identified in economic laboratory experiments survive in natural market contexts is an important and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates to preferences for fair trade products elicited before and at the end of the market experiment. We find that the willingness to buy at a higher price...
DIW-Studie untersucht am Beispiel Mallorca den Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie sowie Maßnahmen zu ihrer Eindämmung auf Passagierflugverkehr – Reiseverbote und Quarantänepflichten beeinträchtigten Flugverkehr nach Mallorca erheblich – Corona-Regeln in Urlaubsregion wie Maskenpflicht oder Ausgangssperren haben keinen Effekt – Veröffentlichung von Inzidenzen im ...
Venture capital (VC) is often seen as an instrumental tool that allows many start-ups to pursue innovation with the potential to shake-up current markets and/or to replace incumbents. Using a highly granular, project-level dataset from preclinical diabetes R&D, this paper shows that VCs actively steer the direction of R&D and streamline activities of research focused firms (pipeline firms)...
This year’s online conference is focusing on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU legislative proposal to regulate digital markets in order to prevent abuses of market power. This regulatory tool contains behavioral obligations for large online platforms (‘gatekeepers’) aimed at reducing entry barriers and ensuring fairness in the relationship between digital platforms and their different user...
Konzentration in deutschen Produktmärkten bleibt insgesamt langfristig konstant, steigt aber im Dienstleistungssektor – In EU- und weltweiten Dienstleistungsmärkten nimmt Konzentration stärker zu als in nationalen Produktmärkten – Treiber sind meist Eintrittsbarrieren, aber auch höhere Effizienz – Strengere Fusionskontrolle gefordert Die viel beschworene ...
Studie zum Mobilfunknetzausbau in dünn besiedelten Regionen vergleicht drei Kooperationsmodelle – Weniger Kosten für Anbieter bei umfassendem Network Sharing, aber geringere Netzabdeckung – KonsumentInnen profitieren am stärksten von Roaming-Abkommen – Gebietsabsprachen zwischen Anbietern erhöhen Netzabdeckung – Behörden könnten Roaming-Abkommen ...
Germany is leading in green competitiveness of its product exports. Deploying the green economic complexity methodology using German AFiD firm-level micro data, this study seeks to analyze explanatory variables for this trend such as green R&D subsidies and subnational density of related green technologies in the light of path dependencies in firms accumulation of green capabilities. It...
We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission (EC). While the EC increasingly recognises the role of economic analysis in controlling public aid to companies, there are to date no full retrospective studies performed ...