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  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    TBA

    08.01.2021| Jonas Lieber, University of Chicago
  • Externe Monographien

    EEAG Revision Support Study: Final Report

    Luxemburg: EU, 2021, XLI, 308 S. | Paolo Buccirossi, Alessia Marrazzo, Livia Baccari, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein, Olga Chiappinelli, Jan Stede, Ciara Barbu O'Connor, Michael Hofmann, Robert Klotz, Sean Ennis, Bryn Enstone, Hans W. Friederiszick, Ela Głowicka, Anselm Mattes, Jan Christopher Rönn, Arvid Viaene, Tomaso Duso, Joanna Piechucka, Jo Seldeslachts
  • Other refereed articles

    Common Ownership in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: A Network Analysis

    We investigate patterns in common ownership networks between firms that are active in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry for the period 2004–2014. Our main findings are that “brand firms”—that is, firms that have research and development capabilities and launch new drugs—exhibit relatively dense common ownership networks with each other that further increase significantly in density over time, whereas ...

    In: The Antitrust Bulletin 66 (2021), 1, S. 68–99 | Albert Banal-Estañol, Melissa Newham, Jo Seldeslachts
  • Diskussionspapiere 1931 / 2021

    A Retrospective Study of State Aid Control in the German Broadband Market

    We provide an evaluation of the impact of German public subsidy schemes in municipalities of Bavaria and Lower Saxony aimed at supporting the deployment of basic broadband infrastructure in rural Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission and may only be granted if the potential market failure is addressed without distorting competition. We first analyse the ...

    2021| Tomaso Duso, Mattia Nardotto, Jo Seldeslachts
  • Diskussionspapiere 1987 / 2021

    Competitors’ Reactions to Big Tech Acquisitions: Evidence from Mobile Apps

    Since 2010, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM) have acquired more than 400 companies. Competition authorities did not scrutinize most of these transactions and blocked none. This raised concerns that GAFAM acquisitions target potential competitors yet fly under the radar of current merger control due to the features of the digital economy. We empirically study the competitive effects ...

    2021| Pauline Affeldt, Reinhold Kesler
  • Diskussionspapiere 1965 / 2021

    Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets

    We empirically investigate the relevance of multi-homing in two-sided markets. First, we build a micro-founded structural econometric model that encompasses demand for differentiated products and allows for multi-homing on both sides of the market. We then use an original dataset on the Italian daily newspaper market that includes information on double-homing by readers to estimate readers’ and advertisers’ ...

    2021| Pauline Affeldt, Elena Argentesi, Lapo Filistrucchi
  • Diskussionspapiere 1961 / 2021

    Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

    The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the ...

    2021| Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The Productivity Riddle in Business Services

    This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   A fast growing and diverse literature has addressed one of the riddles of economic developments: the declining labor productivity growth in almost all advanced economies. One of the reasons discussed is the shift towards service industries with inherently low...

    11.12.2020| Caroline Stiel, DIW Berlin
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    The Interaction between Industry Payments to Physicians, Insurance and Drug Costs: Evidence from Medicare Part D

    This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract:   High and growing prescription drug costs in the United States are a major concern for policy makers. This paper focuses on the extent to which promotional gifts and other transfers made to physicians by pharmaceutical companies cause physicians to prescribe more...

    16.10.2020| Melissa Newham, DIW Berlin und KU Leuven
  • Research Project

    Support study for the revision of the EU guidelines on state aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG)

    The European Commission (DG Competition) commissioned an international consortium of DIW Berlin together with E.CA Economics, LEAR, University of East Anglia and Sheppard Mullin with a background study on State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy. The results of the study will support the Commission in the revision of the EU Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection...

    Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Climate Policy
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