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  • November 26, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Housing Market and Sentiment Analysis

    Speaker: Konstantin A. Kholodilin, DIW Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    The housing issue is one of the hottest social problems. It is widely debated by the society. These debates contain a large subjective component. In addition, they are expected to correlate with the phases of the housing cycle. One of the most visible and durable manifestationsof these debates are the media items. In this study, we aim at assessing the sentiment of these media publications in ...

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  • November 12, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Fairness in Markets and Market Experiments

    Speaker: Jana Friedrichsen, DIW Berlin and FU Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    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 ...

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  • July 2, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Venture Capital in Diabetes: A Yes to Big Hits, a No to Competition

    Speaker: Jan Málek, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    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) ...

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  • June 18, 2021

    Conference

    BCCP Online Panel 2021
    Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: the Digital Markets Act

    Speaker: Cristina Caffarra, Isabelle de Silva, Amelia Fletcher, Fiona Scott Morton, Monika Schnitzer, Özlem Bedre-Defolie, Tomaso Duso, Pauline Affeldt
    Location: Online-Event
    Time: 3.00 - 6.00 p.m. CEST (Berlin)

    The tremendous growth of digital transactions – mainly through online platforms - is profoundly affecting the way we interact and opening vast opportunities to improve our lives. Consumers are benefiting from an unprecedented proliferation of new services and products that previously were too costly to be developed and marketed to customers. At the same time, the characteristics of platform ...

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  • May 28, 2021

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Social Mobility and Economic Development

    Speaker: Guido Neidhöfer, ZEW
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 13:15 - 14:30

    We explore the role of social mobility as driver of economic development. First, we draw the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the aggregate participation of cohorts to the economy in every year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic ...

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  • May 21, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    State Aid for Environmental Protection and Energy – Focus on Electro-intensive Firms

    Speaker: Joanna Piechucka, DIW Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    The European Commission commissioned an international consortium including the DIW Berlin with a background study on State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy. The results of the study are meant to support the Commission in the revision of the EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG). One key focus of the study was to assess the current rules ...

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  • May 7, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Emergency Aid for the Self-Employed in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Flash in the Pan?

    Speaker: Caroline Stiel, DIW Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program at the end of March 2020 offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing ...

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  • March 12, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    What Drives Green Capabilities? Evidence from German Firm-level Data

    Speaker: Nils Handler, DIW Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    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 ...

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  • March 5, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Common Ownership Patterns in the European Banking Sector – The Impact of the Financial Crisis

    Speaker: Jo Seldeslachts, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:00

    We provide a description of ownership patterns in the top 25 European banks for the period 2003–2015, where we especially focus on the global financial crisis. Investment managers, such as Blackrock, are dominant in terms of number of block holdings in different banks, maintaining fairly stable “common ownership” networks throughout our sample. However, the financial crisis led ...

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  • March 5, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The rise of common ownership: Europe vs the US

    Speaker: Nuria Boot, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    11:00 - 11:30

    Common ownership - when an investor holds shares in two companies - has recently attracted significant attention from policy-makers and researchers, studying mainly US firms. European firms, however, are different as top investors with large stakes, like governments, founding families and foundations are much more prevalent. This paper takes a well-known common ownership measure derived from ...

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  • February 19, 2021

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Health Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting Programs by Nurses: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

    Speaker: Gabriella Conti, University College London
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 13:15 - 14:30

    Home visiting programmes are increasingly being implemented across the globe to help vulnerable families with young children, however longer-term experimental evidence on their health impacts on both parents and children is scarce. In this paper we study the medium-term health impacts of a randomized control trial to evaluate the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), one of the oldest home visitation ...

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  • February 12, 2021

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The Value of Data for Prediction Policy Problems: Evidence from Antibiotic Prescribing

    Speaker: Shan Huang, DIW Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   Large-scale personal data collection for the purpose of personalized predictions has been driven by high expectations of efficiency gains in many business and policy settings. Yet, quantifying the trade-off between the costs of linking disconnected silos of personal ...

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  • December 11, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The Productivity Riddle in Business Services

    Speaker: Caroline Stiel, DIW Berlin
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   A fast growing and diverse literature has addressed one of the riddles of economic developments: the declining labor productivity growth in almost all advanced economies. One of the reasons discussed is the shift towards service industries with inherently low ...

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  • November 20, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The Value of Data: Evidence from Web Tracking

    Speaker: Hannes Ullrich, DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30

    This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   The tracking of online user behavior is considered essential for the construction of consumer profiles, which help platforms monetize their services. Prominent examples are advertising in online search or social media, but also online retailing in which matching ...

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  • October 16, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The Interaction between Industry Payments to Physicians, Insurance and Drug Costs: Evidence from Medicare Part D

    Speaker: Melissa Newham, DIW Berlin und KU Leuven
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:00

    This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   High and growing prescription drug costs in the United States are a major concern for policy makers. This paper focuses on the extent to which promotional gifts and other transfers made to physicians by pharmaceutical companies cause physicians to prescribe more ...

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  • October 9, 2020

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    The Gender Gap in Student Performance: The Role of the Testing Environment

    Speaker: Almudena Sevilla, University College London
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    Note the time change:
    13:30 - 14:45

    Abstract:   Our research question is to what extent does the familiarity with the testing environment impact the relative performance of boys and girls in standardized testing. We use an RCT-design on the full population of students in Grade 6 and 10 across several subjects in the Region of Madrid (Spain). This standardized test was either "Externally" administered, meaning that teachers ...

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  • September 25, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Using Text Mining for Information Retrieval Purposes (of merger control cases)

    Speaker: Charlotte Siegmann, University of Warwick
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    This is an online seminar using Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Charlotte will summarize the methodology of textmining for information retrieval, different techniques, advantages and disadvantages. Primarily, she will be discussing the textmining procedure she undertook to develop and verify a database about the merger level characteristics and Commission ...

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  • July 10, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Determinants and effects of mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from drug projects in the diabetes market

    Speaker: Jan Malek
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    15:00 - 15:30

    This is an online seminar using Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   There is an ongoing debate both in academia and in policy circles about the effects of takeovers of small, young firms by large incumbents in innovative industries. Many argue that such takeovers are anticompetitive and harm innovation by killing off nascent competition. ...

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  • June 26, 2020

    Conference

    BCCP Virtual Mini-Conference 2020
    Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: the Future of Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making

    Speaker: Daniel Björkegren, Joanna Bryson, Anna Christmann, Cass Sunstein, Hannes Ullrich
    Location: Video conference via Cisco Webex
    Time: 3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.

    The tremendous growth of digital transactions has profoundly affected the way we interact, opening vast opportunities to improve our lives. Consumers have benefited from an unprecedented proliferation of new services and products that previously were simply too costly to be developed and marketed to customers. These digital interactions create vast amounts of data. While firms are already using ...

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  • June 12, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Physician effects in antibiotic prescribing: Evidence from physician exits

    Speaker: Shan Huang
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time:
    15:00 - 16:00

    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 ...

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