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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    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 ...

    In: Journal of the European Economic Association (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-05-27] | Tomaso Duso, Mattia Nardotto, Jo Seldeslachts
  • Diskussionspapiere 2116 / 2025

    The Impact of Financial Support to Firms during Crises: The Case of Covid Aid in the EU

    The Covid-19 pandemic caused a global economic crisis, leading governments to provide substantial State Aid to support firms. This paper examines the effectiveness of Covid-related financial support in Spain and Italy, focusing on its impact on firm recovery. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach combined with propensity score weighting, it compares outcomes of similar firms receiving aid ...

    2025| Giulia Canzian, Elena Crivellaro, Tomaso Duso, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Alessandro Sasso, Stefano Verzillo
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Growing Clean? Directing Technological Change in Germany

    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
  • Diskussionspapiere 2090 / 2024

    The Evolution of Theories of Harm in EU Merger Control

    We discuss the main Theories of Harm in EU merger control and their evolution since the 1990s. We present stylised facts and trends using data extracted from EU merger decisions by natural language processing tools. EU merger policy has adapted over time, both in terms of legislation and theories of harm, as well as in terms of the investigative tools and evidence used. The introduction of the new ...

    2024| Tomaso Duso, Lea Bernhardt, Joanna Piechucka
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Intangible Capital and Productivity Divergence

    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 70 (2024), 3, S. 605-638 | Marie Le Mouel, Alexander Schiersch
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    German Financial State Aid during Covid-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

    In: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 36 (2024), 1/2, S. 76-97 | Irene Bertschek, Jörn Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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    Industrial electricity prices in Germany have risen sharply

    20.09.2023
  • Other refereed articles

    Digitalisation and Modernity of Capital Stock in Europe

    In: Intereconomics 58 (2023), 5, S. 260-266 | Heike Belitz, Martin Gornig
  • Other refereed articles

    Digitisation and Renaissance of the Manufacturing Industry in Major Cities: The Case of Berlin

    The rise of digitisation will cause a major upheaval in the manufacturing industries, bringing changes to traditional industrial location patterns as well. In order to understand the direction these structural changes are taking, this paper analyses the start-up activity in the industrial sector. The frontrunners are metropolitan regions and in particular major cities such as Berlin or Munich. Furthermore, ...

    In: Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal 16 (2023), 4, S. 385-395 | Martin Gornig
  • Diskussionspapiere 2043 / 2023

    Diversify or Not? – The Link between Global Sourcing of ICT Goods and Firm Performance

    Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe’s digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported ICT goods in the years 2010 and 2014. We find that firms that diversify the sourcing of ICT goods across multiple ...

    2023| Alexander Schiersch, Irene Bertschek, Thomas Niebel
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