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LIVESTREAM: Industrial policy and free trade – Managing tensions, exploiting synergies

Free, fair, and diversified trade plays a crucial role in the development of new technologies and thus also in the success of industrial and innovation policy strategies. Access to critical raw materials and other inputs, such as semiconductors or steel scrap, is often a prerequisite for the development of new technologies, including in the important areas of digitalization and decarbonization. At...

Video Review: The Downside of Fertility: DIW 100 Lecture - Keynote Speech by Nobel Prize Laureate Claudia Goldin

Webinar: Hedging Locational Price Risk under LMP - Experiences from North America

On October 7th, 2025, the Future Power Markets Platform (Karsten Neuhoff) and Future Power Markets Forum (Benjamin Hobbs) jointly organized a webinar, to get first-hand insights on how locational price risks are hedged in North American electricity markets. The first part of the webinar – input presentations from each of the experts – is included in this recording.

“Markets need clear rules”: DIW's Firms and Markets Department introduces itself

[English subtitles, German language video] The Firms and Markets Department at DIW Berlin researches how market rules and their enforcement strengthen competition and the economy. The focus is on business decisions, consumer preferences, and the impact of policy interventions. Using modern methods, the team provides important insights for fair and efficient economic policy—from digitalization to...

Webinar: First-hand Insights from the North American Implementation of Nodal Pricing

On June 25th, 2025, the Future Power Markets Platform (Karsten Neuhoff) and Future Power Markets Forum (Benjamin Hobbs) jointly organized a Webinar, to get first hand insights from people involved during the implementation of nodal pricing across North American market regions. The first part of the webinar – input presentations from each of the four experts – is included in this recording. ...

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2024 AI: Prospects, Challenges, and Regulation (Part III): Session III

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2024 AI: Prospects, Challenges, and Regulation (Part II): Session II

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2024 AI: Prospects, Challenges, and Regulation (Part I): Session I

Videorückblick: Scientific Podcasts for Sustainability Transformations: Berlin Science Week

Livestream: Social Mobility as a Key to Success for Economic Transformation and Reform

Social mobility and equal opportunity are key to thriving societies and economies. In the aftermath of the pandemic and in the context of increasing prices, calls for policymakers to address social and economic inequalities are intensifying. The recently launched Observatory on Social Mobility and Equal Opportunity not only brings together all OECD data points, but also displays the impact of...

Recovery as a springboard for change: Germany and the EU

As the German economy and the EU are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus is shifting to questions of long-term transformation. How can we transform our economies while also limiting climate change and preparing for its impact? The pandemic has accelerated digitalization of German firms and many have already invested to deal with climate change. At the same time, concerns about the...

Harte Restriktionen scheinen die wirksamste Maßnahme zu sein, um in einer Pandemie den Flugverkehr zu beschränken: Interview with Jo Seldeslachts

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

This year’s online conference is focusing on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU legislative proposal to regulate digital markets in order to prevent abuses of market power. This regulatory tool contains behavioral obligations for large online platforms (‘gatekeepers’) aimed at reducing entry barriers and ensuring fairness in the relationship between digital platforms and their different user...

2nd DIW Women’s Finance Summit: The Future of Financial Services – Digitization, Sustainability and Post-Pandemic Growth Models

After failing to fully recover from the last financial crisis, the pandemic poses major new challenges for banks. However, this time, banks are not the problem, but part of the solution. By providing credit to the economy, banks play a crucial role in fighting the pandemic by ensuring the transmission of fiscal and monetary stimulus to the economy. Nevertheless, banks are not among the winners of...

Investing in Europe’s green and digital future

The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) – the financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe – has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. Launched by the Juncker Commission and the EIB Group in 2014, it has gone well beyond its target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. In the meantime, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the biggest...

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

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...

DIW Lecture on Money and Finance: Monetary Policy in the Modern Era

Making a nation-wide randomized field experiment:: Lessons from the Finnish basic income trial

The original goal of the Finnish experiment of 2017 and 2018 was to try to get some evidence on how a new social policy instrument mimicking a basic income would work and what kind of behavioral consequences it would have. The realized experiment was restricted to people aged 25–58 already receiving a labor market subsidy or unemployment allowance and a total of 2,000 participants were...

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2019: Policy Roundtable: Consumer and Competition Policy in Times of Rising Corporate Power

In the closing policy roundtable about Consumer and Competition Policy in Times of Rising Corporate Power, panelists Amelia Fletcher (University of East Anglia and Centre for Competition Policy), Marit Hansen (State of Schleswig-Holstein), Stefan Hunt (UK Competition and Markets Authority), Paul Nemitz (European Commission), and moderator Hans Friederiszick (E.CA Economics) engaged in a lively...

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2019: Panel 2: Political Consequences of Corporate Power in Digital Markets

In the first afternoon session, Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University) and Helen Margetts (University of Oxford) presented their research on the political consequences of corporate power in digital markets.