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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
The innovation impact of acquisitions of small targets with products close to launch by large product market incumbents is currently debated, weighing whether incumbents might preemptively terminate or “kill” the innovative projects of these targets. This paper provides empirical evidence on which M&A deals spur and which stifle innovation. To this end, we not only look at the product market...
15.03.2023| Jo Seldeslachts, DIW Berlin & KU Leuven
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In Germany, health needs of citizens and ordinary residents are taken care of under the scope of statutory social and health insurance. The asylum-seeking population, however, receives healthcare through a parallel system, where decisions on provision of health services are not met at a central health governance level, but rather at federal state and sometimes at municipal...
27.09.2022| Costanza Marconi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) Milano
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on official health diagnoses. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain ...
In:
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100403
| Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
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Workshop
This one-day workshop aims to bring together researchers working on various aspects of the integration of refugee families into host societies and discuss the most recent research developments in this field. It also aims to discuss empirical research, data collection, and policy challenges in view of the new waves of refugees expected to arrive to Europe in the near future. To this end, the...
28.11.2022| Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Herbert Brücker (IAB, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Director of BIM)
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DIW Weekly Report 11 / 2022
Although economic growth continued to be lukewarm in 2021, tax revenue increased significantly, even exceeding the pre-crisis level despite economic policy measures associated with revenue losses. During the 2008-2011 global financial crisis, tax revenue followed a different path: Its recovery lagged behind economic recovery, first reaching the pre-crisis level in 2011. In 2021, value-added tax (VAT) ...
2022| Kristina van Deuverden
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Externe Monographien
The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program at the end of March 2020 offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing substantial revenue ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2022,
34 S.
(CEPA Discussion Papers ; 55)
| Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Maximilian Priem, Caroline Stiel
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Monographien
2020| Heiner von Lüpke, Gustavo Velloso Breviglieri, Camila Yamahaki, Annelise Vendramini, Harald Winkler, Samantha Keen, Ritu Ahuja, Saumya Malhotra, Tamiksha Singh, Cor Marijs, Alessa Widmaier, John Morehouse, Djoko Suroso, Budhi Setiawan, Sita Primadevi
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The self-employed faced strong income losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many governments introduced programs to financially support the self-employed during the pandemic, including Germany. The German Ministry for Economic Affairs announced a €50bn emergency-aid program in March 2020, offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing substantial revenue declines. By reassuring ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
93 (2022), 102567, 16 S.
| Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Maximilian Priem, Caroline Stiel
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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...
03.03.2023| Daniele Condorelli, Sebastian Fleitas, Chiara Fumagalli, Willy Lefez, Mark Schankerman
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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...
15.09.2023| Marit Hinnosaar (University of Nottingham), José L. Moraga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), David P. Myatt (London Business School), Otto Toivanen (Aalto University), Maria Ana Vitorino (INSEAD)