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  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Decentral Electrification, Network Interconnection, and Local Power Markets: An Introduction

    In: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy 11 (2022), 1, S. 1-4 | Sebastian Groh, Valerie J. Karplus, Christian von Hirschhausen
  • DIW Weekly Report 12 / 2022

    Rent Control Reduces Economic Inequality at a Price

    Over the course of the 20th century, governments have frequently used rent control to keep rents affordable, especially in times of crisis when housing is scarce. Existing research shows that rent control has undesirable side effects, such as overall societal welfare losses, market misallocation, a declining housing supply, and lower mobility. However, there has been little research examining the effect ...

    2022| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Earnings Inequality and Working Hours Mismatch

    Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we document a significant rise in monthly earnings in- equality between 1993 and 2018. The main contributors are inter-temporal increases in working hours inequality and increases in the covariance between working hours and hourly wages, while changes in the distribution of hourly wages play a minor role. Applying a novel double decomposition technique ...

    In: Labour Economics 76 (2022), 102184, 22 S. | Mattis Beckmannshagen, Carsten Schröder
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Fairness in Markets and Market Experiments

    Whether pro-social preferences identified in economic laboratory experiments survive in natural market contexts is an important and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates to preferences for fair trade products elicited before and at the end of the market experiment. We find that the willingness to buy at a higher price...

    12.11.2021| Jana Friedrichsen, DIW Berlin and FU Berlin
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Venture Capital in Diabetes: A Yes to Big Hits, a No to Competition

    Venture capital (VC) is often seen as an instrumental tool that allows many start-ups to pursue innovation with the potential to shake-up current markets and/or to replace incumbents. Using a highly granular, project-level dataset from preclinical diabetes R&D, this paper shows that VCs actively steer the direction of R&D and streamline activities of research focused firms (pipeline firms)...

    02.07.2021| Jan Málek, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
  • Video

    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...

    30.06.2021| Veranstaltungsrückblick
  • Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Consumption and Subjective Expectations: Empirical Evidence and Structural Estimation

    19.04.2021| Arne Uhlendorff (CREST)
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    What Drives Green Capabilities? Evidence from German Firm-level Data

    Germany is leading in green competitiveness of its product exports. Deploying the green economic complexity methodology using German AFiD firm-level micro data, this study seeks to analyze explanatory variables for this trend such as green R&D subsidies and subnational density of related green technologies in the light of path dependencies in firms accumulation of green capabilities. It...

    12.03.2021| Nils Handler, DIW Berlin
  • Publication

    Libra, Bitcoin & Co. – Determinants of Non-cash Payments and Alternative Money

    Crypto currencies are booming. Data collection by Fintecs and other internet based companies isreality. Non-cash payments are common in many countries. Financial literacy is getting more andmore important for the economic life and understanding of transactions. The transformation of the monetary system towards more non-cash payments was part of this dynamic response to the necessary reduction of personal ...

    18.02.2021| Dorothea Schäfer
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    TBA

    08.01.2021| Jonas Lieber, University of Chicago
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