Firms and Markets Department Research Projects

Antibiotic Resistance: Socio-Economic Determinants and the Role of Information and Salience in Treatment Choice (ABRSEIST)

Antibiotics have contributed to a tremendous increase in human well-being, saving many millions of lives. However, antibiotics become obsolete the more they are used as selection pressure promotes the development of resistant bacteria. The World Health Organization has proclaimed antibiotic resistance as a major global threat to public health. Today, 700,000 deaths per year are due to...

Evaluation Support Study for the Revision of the Guidelines on State Aid to Airports and Airlines

The study offers a comprehensive retrospective assessment of the Aviation Guidelines related to State Aid, evaluating their effectiveness and efficiency in promoting regional development and enhancing accessibility while minimizing competitive distortions. The analysis focuses on three primary areas: It examines whether the 2014–2024 transition period for phasing out operating aid to airports...

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. While some of...

Structural Data on Production and Employment in the Construction Industry - Calculations for the Years 2024-2027

The aim of the study is to provide a comprehensive yet consistent and differentiated presentation of the production of construction services by the construction industry and other economic sectors and the demand for construction services in the form of investments and maintenance measures. On the demand side, the volume of new building construction is also quantified for the areas of residential...

Analysis of the performance of the official statistics for the measurement the productivity of knowledge-intensive services

The objective of the study is to analyze the performance of the official statistics for the measurement the productivity of knowledge-intensive services. The study will be executed in two steps. In the first step, concept of productivity measurement common in official statistics is discussed critically, and the development of productivity measured on this basis in the field of the knowledge...

Beschäftigungs- und Tarifpolitik bei der Deutschen Bahn: Ein Modell zur Sicherung von Arbeitsplätzen im wettbewerblichen Umfeld?

Collection of key qualitative and quantitative information on the European Commission's merger decisions

The main purpose of the project is to put together a comprehensive database including qualitative and quantitative information from past merger cases, which would enable DG Competition to produce statistical reports which could serve as an input to DG Competition's decision making practice in relation to EU merger control, both for operational and for policy purposes.

Economic impact of competition policy enforcement on the functioning of télécoms markets in the EU

The purpose of the Study is to explain and quantify the causal relationship between competition policy, competition, and market outcomes in the telecoms sector, on the basis of sound and established econometric techniques. We aim at providing instruments and evidence that may help to improve the effectiveness of competition policy interventions and to inform the public about the effects of...

ECONS: Evolving Complex Networks

ECONS is a joint project of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, the German Institute of Economic Research and the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics. It is sponsored by the Leibniz Association's "Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation".Websitehttp://econs.pik-potsdam.de/

EDF-Kooperation

In this cooperation, researchers from DIW Berlin and EDF R&D are jointly working on  topics from energy economics: European natural gas markets, electricity markets and its regulation, benchmarking and modeling.

Employment 2025: How multiple transitions will affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS)

NEUJOBS is a research project financed by the European Commission, under the 7th Framework Programme. The objective is to analyse future possible developments of the European labour market(s) under the main assumption that European societies are facing or preparing to face four main transitions that will have a major impact on employment, in particular for some groups in the labour force or...

Employment effects of renewable energies in Germany: Expansion and operation – today and tomorrow

The results will be provided on the internet platform of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety: http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/die-themen/arbeitsplatzeffekte-qualifizierung-akzeptanz/arbeitsplaetze/.

Environmental protection as an Economic Factor: Environmental Protection Employment and the Competitiveness of the Environmental Industry - Updating of Important Indicators

Environmental protection as an Economic Factor: Survey of Environmental Protection Employment and Updating of Important Indicators of the Competitiveness of the Environmental Protection Industry

Evaluation of "Zwanzig20 - Partnerschaft für Innovation"

Evaluation of Business Coaching for Start-ups

During the first five years after start-up, entrepreneurs in Germany can receive public funding for external business coaching, within the program "Gründercoaching Deutschland". The program was introduced in October 1, 2007 and one year later extended by a variant especially designed for start-ups out of unemployment "Gründercoaching Deutschland - Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit". For the latter...

Evaluation support study on the EU rules on State aid for access to finance for SMEs

As part of the evaluation process of the current State aid rules, the European Commission has awarded to the consortium of Lear, DIW Berlin, and Sheppard Mullin, a specific contract to carry out a study of the EU rules for State aid facilitating access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). These rules comprise the Guidelines on State aid to promote risk finance investments (RFG) and...

Feasibility Study - How can the economic importance of the social economy be measured

General Economic and Sectoral Effects of the Promotion of Renewable Energies

The federal government of Germany is promoting the diffusion of renewable energies, thereby intending to induce the structural change of the energy supply as well as enhance growth and employment. This project is going to analyse effects of supportive measures for the promotion of renewable energies on productivity, production and employment on the general economic and sectoral level.For this...

Global Food Markets: Global Food Security - Challenge for Production and Consumption

Scarce resources, the rising demand for agricultural products and growing land-use competition between the production of energy and food have increased the importance of strategies for food security. In the research project “Global Food Markets: Global Food Security – Challenges for Production and Consumption” both supply and demand-oriented approaches that can realize sustainable supply increases...