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  • March 13, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Market Concentration in Europe: Evidence based on Antitrust Markets (canceled)

    Speaker: Tomaso Duso
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time:
    10:30 - 11:30
    - Cancelled -

    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 ...

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  • February 28, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Decomposing Trust

    Speaker: Jana Friedrichsen
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    Abstract:  Trust is thought to be an important driver of economic growth and other economic outcomes. Previous studies suggest that trust may be a combination of risk attitudes, distributional preferences, betrayal aversion, and beliefs about the probability of being reciprocated. We compare the results of a binary trust game to the results of a series of control treatments that remove the ...

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  • February 14, 2020

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Battling Antibiotic Resistance: Can Machine Learning Improve Prescribing?

    Speaker: Hannes Ullrich
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    Abstract:  Antibiotic misuse due to prescribing under diagnostic uncertainty is a leading driver of antibiotic resistance. We investigate the magnitude and mechanisms by which machine learning predictions can enable policies that reduce antibiotic misuse. Building on predictions from administrative data on urinary tract infections in Denmark, we evaluate counterfactual policies that replace ...

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  • December 20, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Determinants of Ownership Changes in the Market for Diabetes

    Speaker: Jan Malek
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: Time change: 10:00 - 11:00

    Abstract:  This paper investigates the determinants of ownership changes of drug candidates in one of the most important current pharma markets —the market for diabetes. We in particular look at how do the competitive circumstances, progress in clinical development and radicalness of the drug candidates matter in these decisions. We use newly constructed, very granular dataset tracking ...

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  • December 6, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Data Network Effects: The Example of Internet Search

    Speaker: Maximilian Schäfer
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 11:00 - 11:30

    Abstract:   The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is lacking. In this paper, we show that data as an input into machine learning tasks displays features that favor the hypothesis that data is a source of market power. We study the search result quality for search keywords on ...

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  • December 6, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Partitioned Pricing and Consumer Welfare

    Speaker: Kevin Ducbao Tran
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:00

    Abstract:   In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that partitioned pricing impacts consumer decisions through salience effects, its consumer ...

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  • November 29, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Antibiotic Prescribing and Diagnostic Testing: Physician Behavior in the Case of Urinary Tract Infection

    Speaker: Shan Huang
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:00

    Abstract: When a patient with symptoms of urinary tract infection arrives at a physician's office, it needs to decide which antibiotic drug to prescribe. A drug's efficacy in treating the infection depends on the individual, time-dependent resistance profile of the bacterium causing the infection. Physicians can conduct antibiotic susceptibility tests in order to create current resistance profiles ...

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  • November 22, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    State-owned Firms and Payout Policy - Evidence from German Municipal Firms

    Speaker: Astrid Cullmann, DIW Berlin & TU Berlin
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    This study investigates the payout policy of state-owned municipal firms. Based on insights from agency theory we derive an empirically testable model based on Lintner's corporate dividend policy model accounting for the characteristics of state-owned firms in terms of corporate governance and ownership structure. Exploiting a large and new panel dataset on German firms from the years 2003 to 201 ...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Choosing between Explicit Cartel Formation and Tacit Collusion – An Experiment

    Speaker: Maximilian Andres, University of Potsdam
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    Abstract: Antitrust authorities try to detect and sanction existing cartels and hinder the formation of new ones. Firms nevertheless try to collude while avoiding sanctions, for example by colluding tacitly instead of explicitly forming a cartel. In this paper, we focus on differences in the communication of firms that either form an explicit cartel or try to collude tacitly. The latter may still ...

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  • November 1, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Incumbency Advantage: Theory and Possible Applications

    Speaker: Christoph Wolf, Bocconi University, Joanna Piechucka
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    Joanna and Christoph will do a joint IOBB to exchange ideas on a possible project on incumbency advantage and mergers in procurement auctions. In the first part of the seminar, they will discuss possible theoreotical explanations and consequences of incumbency advantage. This will open the floor for discussion on how data from procurement auctions in the French urban transport industry can be ...

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  • October 11, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Evaluation of Bidding Groups in First-price Auctions

    Speaker: Christine Zulehner, University of Vienna
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    Abstract: In this paper, we analyze bidding groups that participate in procurement auctions. Our main question is to ask, whether in the absence of the joint bid, there could have been two or more independent bids and if yes, these bids yield a different final outcome. We utilize data from the Austrian construction sector and estimate models of first-price sealed-bid auctions with endogenous entry ...

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  • September 13, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Performance, Competition and Corporate Social Responsibility in Organisations

    Speaker: Michaelis Drouvelis, University of Birmingham
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    Abstract: We examine experimentally the impact of corporate social responsibility techniques on individuals’ performance and willingness to compete. Our baseline treatment adopts the Niederle-Vesterlund (2007) paradigm whereby individuals perform a task under piece-rate and tournament incentives, followed by an opportunity to determine which of the two payment schemes they prefer. In our ...

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  • August 9, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Drug Firms’ payments and physician prescribing behavior in the US

    Speaker: Melissa Newham
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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  • June 28, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Consumer Rating Dynamics

    Speaker: Christoph Wolf
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    (joint with André Stenzel and Peter Schmidt) We consider dynamic price-setting in the presence of rating systems and asymmetric information about product quality. We provide a framework in which the price charged determines the characteristics of purchasing consumers. The price has two effects on future ratings: (i) a direct price effect on reviews, and (ii) an indirect selection effect ...

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  • June 7, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Effectiveness of State Aid - Retrospective Evaluation of the EC Regional Aid Framework

    Speaker: Joanna Piechucka
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 11:30 - 12:30

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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  • May 24, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    How does receiving an unusual antibiotic resistance test result affect a physician's future treatment decisions?

    Speaker: Shan Huang
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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  • May 10, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    M&A and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry

    Speaker: Jan Malek
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10.00-10:30

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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  • May 10, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Financial Markets, Common Ownership and Product Market Outcomes

    Speaker: Jo Seldeslachts
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10.30-11.00

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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  • April 26, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The effect of a leniency rule on cartel formation and stability: experiments with open communication

    Speaker: Jana Friedrichsen
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10.30-11.30

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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  • January 25, 2019

    Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Career Concerns and Managerial Risk Taking: Evidence from the NFL

    Speaker: Hannes Ullrich
    Location: Anna J. Schwartz Room
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10.30-11.30

    The seminar organized by the "Firms and Markets" department: * provides an opportunity to present on-going research, * focuses on advances in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and economic policy issues, * serves as a forum for discussing both academic and project-related research, * intends to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. Coordination: Jonas Hannane

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