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Personnel news
Tomaso Duso was elected as an academic member in the Stearing Committee of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE) starting on 1st January 2019.
ACE was created in 2003 and brings together competition economists working in government, academia and the private sector. It provides a forum for discussion and debate on competition-related policies and specific cases. It is a not-for-profit ...
21.12.2018
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Personnel news
Caroline Stiel, who works at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "German Public Utilities: Organisation and Productivity" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (Technische Universität Berlin, DIW Berlin) und Dr. Astrid Cullmann (Technische Universität Berlin, DIW Berlin).
We ...
09.11.2018
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Personnel news
On September 12, 2018, the president of the Technical University of Berlin appointed Tomaso Duso professor of empirical industrial economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management. The appointment was made jointly with DIW Berlin and involves heading the Firms and Markets Department at DIW Berlin. Tomaso Duso was previously professor of empirical industrial economics at the Düsseldorf Institute ...
13.09.2018
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Personnel news
Melissa Newham (Firms and Markets Department and KU Leuven), was granted the ICM-FWO Fellowship by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), which is the most prominent funding channel for PhD students in Belgium. The funding period is one year renewable twice.
11.07.2018
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Weekly Report
The principle of net neutrality was adopted by the European Union as a regulation promoting equality among all data packets in the Internet. Considering net neutrality from a purely economic viewpoint, however, the general possibility to prioritize data packets would likely lead to a more efficient use of existing network capacity. This is particularly applicable given the growth in data traffic and ...
21.06.2018
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Weekly Report
Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it comes to gigabit-capable connections—particularly in sparsely populated regions. On the demand side, ...
21.06.2018| Claus Michelsen
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Press Release
Retail electricity prices develop very differently depending on the provider and the tariff – Basic tariffs from default providers increased significantly between 2007 and 2014 while the most affordable tariffs offered in the market remained mostly constant – Providers passed the cost savings from falling wholesale prices on to households to varying degrees
The average electricity prices ...
07.02.2018
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Press Release
First study using official company records — more knowledge-based capital increases productivity — some sectors are already investing more in knowledge-based capital than in machines and buildings — economic policy must take a holistic approach towards investments
Every year in Germany, around 200 billion euros are invested in knowledge-based capital, such as research and development ...
01.02.2018
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Press Release
In important areas such as tax policy, education, and energy, the future grand coalition must be considerably more ambitious – The need for reform in Germany is not being addressed sufficiently
Germany’s next government will most likely once again be a grand coalition. However, the results of the preliminary coalition talks between the Union parties and the SPD, which serve as a basis ...
31.01.2018
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Press Release
Construction industry continues very positive development – more room for modernization and renovation of existing buildings – construction prices rise sharply
The construction sector cycle will continue its upward course in the next two years according to the forecast of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), which makes its annual prognosis of construction volume on ...
12.01.2018
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Press Release
The R&D expenditure of German companies abroad has more than doubled compared to 2003. At the same time, their domestic investments are increasing sharply – The majority of the investments can be attributed to the automotive engineering and pharmaceutical industries – The share of foreign companies in R&D investments in Germany is sinking.
In recent years, German companies have ...
22.11.2017
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Personnel news
Anna Lu, who worked at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization in Grocery Retailing" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) and Prof. Dr. Justus Haucap (Heinrich Heine ...
28.08.2017
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Economic Bulletin
Ownership of publicly listed German companies has undergone significant changes in recent years. The aim of this report is to document these trends since 2007 and analyze the extent to which firms that compete in the same product market are owned by the same investors, which is known as common ownership. We show that some large foreign institutional investors have overtaken domestic investors and now ...
26.07.2017| Melissa Newham, Jo Seldeslachts
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Interview
Mr Seldeslachts, could you please explain the term "common ownership"?
Common ownership means that one investor has shares in several companies at the same time. If you want to be even more precise it would be the same owner or investor having shares in several companies that compete in the same market. [...]
26.07.2017| Jo Seldeslachts
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Personnel news
Stefan Seifert and Marica Valente have been granted a research scholarship from the American Association of Economists (AAWE), as well as receiving a prize for their paper "An offer that you can’t refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy." Both were presented at the annual AAWE conference in Pedua, Italy.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates them ...
11.07.2017
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Personnel news
Tomaso Duso, Head of the Department Firms and Markets at DIW Berlin, and Hannes Ullrich, Research Associate at the Department Firms and Markets, were nominated Research Fellows in the newly established Research Area Economics of Digitization of the CESifo research network.
The Economics of Digitization Area of the CESifo research network is organised by Stephen P. Ryan, Olin Business School. The area ...
15.06.2017
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Report
Algorithms and online platforms – how much governmental intervention do we need?
The German Federal Cartel Office has initiated competition proceedings against Facebook, the EU commission is investigating Google, and the EU courts are assessing the legal treatment and possible regulation of the online platform Uber. The potential for the development of market power and its abuse in dynamic ...
30.05.2017
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Personnel news
Hannes Ullrich from the department of Firms and Markets was accepted as a member of the Committee on Industrial Economics of the German Economic Association (VfS). With around 4,000 members – both individuals and institutions – the association is one of Europe’s largest associations of economists. 24 committees are responsible for a large part of the research work carried ...
24.03.2017
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Personnel news
Florian Mölders, a DIW Graduate Center alumnus, has received the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development Best Paper Prize 2016 for your article ‘International knowledge spillovers through high-tech imports and R&D of foreign-owned firms’, published in volume 25, issue 4. together with Heike Belitz.
01.02.2017
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Report
Tomaso Duso's paper "Ex post Merger Evaluation in the U.K. Retail Market for Books" (joint with Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Lorenzo Ciari, and Massimo Tognoni), published in the Journal of Industrial Economics, 2016, 64, 1, 170-200, has been short-listed for the Antitrust Writing Awards in the category “Best Articles - economics”. This category prizes the best articles published ...
02.12.2016| Tomaso Duso