-
Refereed essays Web of Science
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount of money raised per pitch. We examine heterogeneity in the average amount raised per pitch that is associated ...
In:
PloS one
19 (2024), 1, e0293292, 17 S.
| Saul Estrin, Susanna Khavul, Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonas Löher
-
Refereed essays Web of Science
Bosch-Domènech et al. (2014) reported a negative association between 2D:4D, a suggested marker of prenatal testosterone exposure, and the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) in a sample of 623 university students. In this pre-registered study, we test if we can replicate their findings in a general population sample of over 2,500 individuals from Germany. We find no statistically significant association ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
209 (2023), S. 288-307
| Levent Neyse, Frank M. Fossen, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
-
Refereed essays Web of Science
To ensure sufficient access to healthcare in remote areas, some countries allow physicians to directly dispense prescribed drugs through on-site pharmacies. Depending on the medication prescribed, this may pose a significant financial incentive for physicians to over-prescribe. This study, therefore, explored the effect of on-site pharmacies on antibiotic dispensing in a social health insurance system. ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
321 (2023), 115791, 8 S.
| Barbara Stacherl, Anna-Theresa Renner, Daniela Weber
-
Refereed essays Web of Science
In current power markets, the bulk of electricity is sold wholesale and transported to consumers via long-distance transmission lines. Recently, decentralized local energy markets have evolved, often as isolated networks based on solar generation. We analyze strategic pricing, investment, and welfare in local energy markets. We show that local energy markets yield competitive equilibrium prices and ...
In:
The Journal of Industrial Economics
71 (2023), 3, S. 855-882
| Pio Baake, Sebastian Schwenen, Christian von Hirschhausen
-
Externe Monographien
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount of money raised per pitch. We examine heterogeneity in the average amount raised per pitch that is associated ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2024,
27 S.
(CEPA Discussion Papers ; 72)
| Saul Estrin, Susanna Khavul, Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonas Löher
-
Refereed essays Web of Science
The outbreak of COVID‐19 has sparked a sudden demand for fast, frequent and accurate data on the societal impact of the pandemic. This demand has highlighted a divide in survey data collection: Most probability‐based social surveys, which can deliver the necessary data quality to allow valid inference to the general population, are slow, infrequent and ill‐equipped to survey people during a lockdown. ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
185 (2022), 3, S. 773-797
| Carina Cornesse, Ulrich Krieger, Marie‐Lou Sohnius, Marina Fikel, Sabine Friedel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Sebastian Juhl, Roni Lehrer, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom
-
Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart...
19.04.2024| Itai Ater (Tel Aviv University), Eeva Mauring (University of Bergen), Tanja Saxell (Aalto University & VATT), Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna), Stephan Seiler (Imperial College Business School)
-
Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
The acquisitions of startups by Google, Amazon, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have steadily increased over the past years and have become more diversified. The current discussion about strategic motives for such acquisitions is vivid – especially in light of present concerns about the market power of gatekeepers, faster technological advances and digitalization. The principal question remains whether...
01.11.2023| Claudia Salim, University of Klagenfurt
-
Other refereed essays
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
-
Refereed essays Web of Science
Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...
In:
Social Forces
102 (2023), 2, S. 454–474
| Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck