This paper tests whether intangible capital is a substitute or, to some degree, a complement to standard inputs in the production process. The analysis is conducted for public sectors in which governmental institutions are directly responsible for both, efficiently producing public goods as well as for the investment in new production factors. Knowing the substitutability of inputs is important for ...
Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up a distribution network means ...
Mr. Nardotto, you investigated the market for broadband communication networks using data from UK broadband. The incumbent broadband providers have a strong market position because they own the network. What options do new entries have to compete? Historically, the EU implemented regulation because the authorities were afraid that the incumbents could transfer their monopolistic power into the new ...
Maximilian Podstawski, department of Forecasting and Economic Policy, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title “Unconventional Identification in Vectorautoregressive Models: Empirical Essays on Credit, Risk and Uncertainty" was supervised by Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW, Freie Universität Berlin) and Ferdinand Fichtner ...
The application for the project “Conception, Implementation, Preparation, Register Linkage, Analysis, and Data Provision/Distribution of a Representative Sample of Refugee Families (GeFam)“ approved by the BMBF envisions that this sample be doubled by another 1,600 “anchor” respondents along with their families. The GeFam boost sample was designed to increase the number of individuals in the...
According to the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the uncertainty introduced by the results of the Brexit referendum could noticeably negatively impact on the German economy, resulting in a growth number for next year significantly lower than expected. In particular, the uncertainty about the UK’s economic prospects increased after the referendum, as mirrored in a flight to ...
