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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    A Retrospective Merger Analysis in the U.K. Videogame Market

    We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry—the videogame market—which is characterized by the frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the United Kingdom—Game Group PLC and Games Station Limited—we perform a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the price evolution of the merging parties with ...

    In: Journal of Competition Law & Economics 10 (2014), Iss. 4, S. 933-958 | Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni, Christiana Vitale
  • Diskussionspapiere 1360 / 2014

    Business Confidence and Forecasting of Housing Prices and Rents in Large German Cities

    In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 115 indicators to predict the housing prices and rents in 71 German cities. Above all, we are interested in whether the local business confidence indicators can allow substantially improving the forecasts, given the local nature of the real-estate markets. The forecast accuracy of different predictors is tested in a framework of a quasi out-of-sample ...

    2014| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Boriss Siliverstovs
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    A Note on Networks of Collaboration in Multi-market Oligopolies

    In this note, we extend the Goyal and Joshi’s model of collaboration networks in oligopoly to multi-market situations. We examine the incentive of firms to form links and the architectures of the resulting equilibrium networks in this setting. We then present some results on efficient networks.

    In: The Annals of Regional Science 53 (2014), 2, S. 325-335 | Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Subhadip Chakrabarti, Sudipta Sarangi
  • Berlin IO Day

    The 1st Berlin IO Day

    The Berlin IO Day is a new one-day workshop sponsored by Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT, WZB, Humboldt University Berlin, and Technical University Berlin which takes place twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most...

    27.09.2013
  • Research Project

    Future Power Market Platform

    The Future Power Market Platform brings together consists of experts and decision-makers from both public and private sector across Europe who are prioritizing market design and regulatory mechanism development in their working agendas. The initiative will lead an ongoing informative debate on the adequate regulatory and market framework for 2020 and beyond.Working group meetings take place at DIW...

    Current Project| Climate Policy
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Targeted Pricing and Customer Data Sharing among Rivals

    It is increasingly observable that competitors in different industries share customer data, which can be used for targeted pricing. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such sharing and its ensuing welfare effects. We show that these incentives depend on the type of customer data and on consumer heterogeneity in the strength ...

    In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013), 2, S. 131-144 | Nicola Jentzsch, Geza Sapi, Irina Suleymanova
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    An Early Warning System to Predict Speculative House Price Bubbles

    In this paper, the authors construct country-specific chronologies of the house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q1-2009:Q4. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of a fundamental approach and a filter approach. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is the one which provides the highest concordance between these two techniques. In addition, the authors suggest ...

    In: Economics 7 (2013), 9, 26 S. | Christian Dreger, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Is There a Bubble in the Chinese Housing Market?

    For many analysts, the Chinese economy is being spurred on by a bubble in the housing market, probably driven by the fiscal stimulus package and massive credit expansion, with potentially adverse effects on the real economy. The house price development is investigated by panel cointegration techniques. Evidence is based on a data-set for 35 major cities. Cointegration is detected between real house ...

    In: Urban Policy and Research 31 (2013), 1, S. 27-39 | Christian Dreger, Yanqun Zhang
  • Diskussionspapiere 1270 / 2013

    The Spatial Dimension of US House Price Developments

    Spatial heterogeneity and spatial dependence are two well established aspects of house price developments. However, the analysis of differences in spatial dependence across time and space has not gained much attention yet. In this paper we jointly analyze these three aspects of spatial data. We apply a panel smooth transition regression model that allows for heterogeneity across time and space in spatial ...

    2013| Katharina Pijnenburg
  • Diskussionspapiere 1342 / 2013

    Crop Failures and Export Tariffs

    We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first results is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium tariffs can explode (shedding some light ...

    2013| Pio Baake, Steffen Huck
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