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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
The emerging net zero paradigm requires economies to go green; and Europe’s ambition is to lead the way. This requires directing technological change toward cleaner growth, which intersects with green industrial policies in the form of green innovation subsidies. Leveraging a quasi-exhaustive novel dataset on German R&D subsidies, we provide rigorous evidence on whether green R&D subsidies...
14.02.2024| Nils Handler, DIW Berlin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper provides evidence that investment in intangible capital, despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak productivity performance at the aggregate level as it amplifies ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
(2024), im Ersch. [Online first: 2023-07-23]
| Marie Le Mouel, Alexander Schiersch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In:
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
36 (2024), 1/2, S. 76-97
| Irene Bertschek, Jörn Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Intuition is a central element of entrepreneurial decision-making. We conceptually replicate a published study by using new representative data from 1961 adults and the widely used Cognitive Reflection Test, which assesses the ability to avoid intuitive decisions and to switch to an analytical process. We extend the analysis by exploring occupational sorting versus environmental influence as mechanisms, ...
In:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
(2024), im Ersch. [Online first: 2023-11-20]
| Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse
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Infographic
20.09.2023
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Diskussionspapiere 2045 / 2023
As research indicates a gap between complex scientific measures of accessibility and simpler proxies used by firms, this paper analyses the impact of several market access indicators on the location decision of firms. It compares the role of inter- and intra-industry agglomeration as proxies of access with a newly developed gravity-based indicator incorporating transport distances and industry relations. ...
2023| Dennis Gaus, Georg Hirte
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Diskussionspapiere 2039 / 2023
We examine how competition affects VAT pass-through in isolated oligopolistic markets as defined by the Greek islands. Using daily gasoline prices and a difference-in-differences methodology, we investigate how changes in VAT rates are passed through to consumers in islands with different market structure. We show that pass-through increases with competition, going from 50% in monopoly to around 80% ...
2023| Lydia Dimitrakopoulou, Christos Genakos, Themistoklis Kampouris, Stella Papadokonstantaki
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DIW Weekly Report 22 / 2023
In October 2023, the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a part of the reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), will come into effect. Currently, energy-intensive industries do not need to purchase all of the necessary EU ETS allowances on the market to remain globally competitive, as the remaining allowances are freely allocated to them. The CBAM plans to gradually replace ...
2023| Robin Sogalla
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DIW Weekly Report 38/39 / 2023
The sharp rise in electricity prices has led to a discussion on possible subsidies for companies in the form of an industrial power tariff. The subsidies should help companies remain internationally competitive and prevent them from relocating overseas. Although German electricity prices for (industrial) firms are around the European average due to many tax exemptions, they are significantly higher ...
2023| Lea Bernhardt, Tomaso Duso, Robin Sogalla, Alexander Schiersch
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Other refereed essays
We analyse the impact of the temporary tax reduction on diesel and gasoline prices from June to the end of August 2022 in Germany. By implementing a synthetic difference-in-differences approach with different baskets of European countries, we find a significant reduction in prices by 33.8–34.4 cents per litre for gasoline and 12.2–14.6 cents per litre for diesel. These results are robust to variations ...
In:
Review of Economics
74 (2023), 2, S. 141-160
| Lea Bernhardt, Xenia Breiderhoff, Ralf Dewenter