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This year’s online conference is focusing on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU legislative proposal to regulate digital markets in order to prevent abuses of market power. This regulatory tool contains behavioral obligations for large online platforms (‘gatekeepers’) aimed at reducing entry barriers and ensuring fairness in the relationship between digital platforms and their different user...
30.06.2021| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Christian von Hirschhausen und Ben Wealer sprechen über die Häufigkeit von Stör- und Unfällen und über die Unstetigkeit von Atomkraftwerken. Bei Katastrophen wie in Fukushima oder Tschernobyl hafte am Ende immer die Gesellschaft. Die Technologie sei ohne Lerneffekt geblieben und werde immer teurer.
23.02.2021| Nachgeforscht
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The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) – the financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe – has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. Launched by the Juncker Commission and the EIB Group in 2014, it has gone well beyond its target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. In the meantime, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the biggest...
19.11.2020| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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The tremendous growth of digital transactions has profoundly affected the way we interact, opening vast opportunities to improve our lives. Consumers have benefited from an unprecedented proliferation of new services and products that previously were simply too costly to be developed and marketed to customers. These digital interactions create vast amounts of data. While firms are already using...
29.06.2020| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Die EU-Kommission hat den Haushaltsentwurf Italiens abgelehnt. DIW-Konjunkturökonom Stefan Gebauer gibt im aktuellen "Spotlight" eine Einschätzung, wie sich der Haushaltsstreit lösen lassen kann.
24.10.2018| Spotlight
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1,8 Millionen Menschen mit Anspruch auf den Mindestlohn verdienten 2016 weniger als die ihnen zustehenden 8,50 Euro brutto pro Stunde. Das haben die Arbeitsmarktökonomin Alexandra Fedorets und ihre Kollegen auf Basis der SOEP-Daten herausgefunden – ein Ergebnis, das die WissenschaftlerInnen überraschte. Um sich ein Bild davon zu machen, wie Arbeitgeber den Mindestlohn umgehen, hat...
24.05.2018| SOEP People
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In the closing policy roundtable about Consumer and Competition Policy in Times of Rising Corporate Power, panelists Amelia Fletcher (University of East Anglia and Centre for Competition Policy), Marit Hansen (State of Schleswig-Holstein), Stefan Hunt (UK Competition and Markets Authority), Paul Nemitz (European Commission), and moderator Hans Friederiszick (E.CA Economics) engaged in a lively...
22.07.2019| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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In the first afternoon session, Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University) and Helen Margetts (University of Oxford) presented their research on the political consequences of corporate power in digital markets.
22.07.2019| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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In the opening session of the BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2019, Jan Eeckhout (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona), Jonathan Baker (American University), and Fiona Scott Morton (Yale University) discussed the global rise of concentration, profits, mark-ups and market power across many markets and industries, the possible explanations for rising mark-ups and concentration and the role of...
22.07.2019| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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This introductory video describes what the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) study is about, how it has evolved, what kinds of data it offers for scientific research, and under what conditions the data can be accessed. This video may also be of interest to parts of the non-scientific community as a very basic overview of the study.
21.05.2019| SOEPtutorials