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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Abstract: An increasing body of empirical evidence has documented trends to risen concentration, profits, markups, and market power in many industries across the world since the 1980s. Several factors – such as globalisation, digitisation, the increased role of intangible assets and sunk costs, as well as M&A activity and the (under)enforcement of merger control– have been...
13.03.2020| Tomaso Duso
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This event takes place online via Zoom.
Abstract: While the coronavirus spreads around the world, governments are attempting to reduce contagion rates at the expense of negative economic effects. Market expectations have plummeted, foreshadowing the risk of a global economic crisis and mass unemployment. Governments provide huge financial aid programmes to mitigate the expected economic...
17.04.2020| Fabian Braesemann (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This is an online seminar using Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between common ownership – when two firms are partially held by the same investor – and markups. Combining firm-level financial data from Europe with ownership data of publicly listed firms, we structurally estimate production...
07.05.2020| Nuria Boot
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
As the nominee to succeed European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in November, Christine Lagarde may be hoping that her job will be somewhat easier than that of her predecessor. Yet the opposite is likely to be true. Though Draghi was tasked with guiding the ECB through years of crises, Lagarde will have to pursue eurozone reforms at a time of deepening polarization among member-state governments. ...
05.08.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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Externe Monographien
Opinions regarding capital account openness have been undergoing changes. On the one hand, financial liberalization and integration are viewed as sources of economic growth and prosperity due to a better allocation of capital to productive uses. In addition, free capital mobility and access to foreign capital are considered to be important facilitators of investment as well as cross-border risk sharing. ...
Berlin:
FU Berlin,
2019,
121, XXX S.
| Tatsiana Kliatskova
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Externe Monographien
This dissertation focuses on three dimensions of inequality: income, (just) taxation, and well-being. All chapters focus on a similar time horizon (2000 to 2015) and essentially on the same geographical area, Germany. The chapters are organized in four parts, each examining a specific research question and based on evidence from microdata - the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The analysis of chapter ...
Berlin:
FU Berlin,
2019,
IX, 151 S.
| Maria Metzing
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DIW Discussion Papers 1816 / 2019
In this study, we set up a DSGE model with upward looking consumption comparison and show that consumption externalities are an important driver of consumer credit dynamics. Our model economy is populated by two different household types. Investors, who hold the economy’s capital stock, own the firms and supply credit, and workers, who supply labor and demand credit to finance consumption. Furthermore, ...
2019| Mathias Klein, Christopher Krause
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DIW Discussion Papers 1817 / 2019
We present evidence that the practice of holding back poorly performing students affects estimates of the impact of class size on student outcomes based on within-school variation of cohort size over time. This type of variation is commonly used to identify class size effects. We build a theoretical model in which cohort size is subject to random shocks and students whose performance falls below a ...
2019| Maximilian Bach, Stephan Sievert
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that are individually found to be significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems by households but are not yet tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors; i.e. the expected costs of ...
In:
Energy Economics
81 (2019), S. 216-226
| Anke Jacksohn, Peter Grösche, Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
One of the main challenges faced by climate policy makers today is to design and implement policies capable of transferring climate policy goals into sectoral actions towards transformational pathways. Hence, climate policies need to be of cross-cutting character, lead to coherence with sectoral goals and reconcile diverging sectoral interests. Against this background, Mexico has undertaken significant ...
In:
Climate Policy
20 (2020), 7, S. 832-845
| Heiner von Lüpke, Mareike Well