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  • Event

    7th BCCP Forum

    Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Forum The Forum will bring together all BCCP fellows in law and economics who are engaged in the activities of the science campus. We will have the opportunity to learn about each other’s research during short presentations by the different partner institutions followed by open discussion. The objective of the meeting is to encourage...

    27.04.2022
  • Diskussionspapiere 2023 / 2022

    Ownership Diversification and Product Market Pricing Incentives

    We link investor ownership to profit loads on rival firms by the managers of a firm. We propose a theory model in which we distinguish between passive and active investors’ holdings, where passive investors are relatively more diversified. We find that if passive investors become relatively bigger, then common ownership incentives increase. We show that these higher incentives, in turn, are linked ...

    2022| Albert Banal-Estanol, Jo Seldeslachts, Xavier Vives
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    Competition, Formal Governance and Trust in Alliances: An Experimental Study

    We study the role of alliance governance in the behavior of partners in alliances with different degrees of competition. Using data from a lab experiment on 1,009 alliances and 31,662 partners' choices, we explore whether and how alliances succeed in different competitive scenarios, contingent on the use of formal governance mechanisms (termination clauses) and the number of partners in the alliance. ...

    In: Long Range Planning 55 (2022), 5, 102240, 18 S. | Giulia Solinas, Debrah Meloso, Albert Banal-Estañol, Jo Seldeslachts, Tobias Kretschmer
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    The Pricing Structure of Legal Services: Do Lawyers Offer What Clients Want?

    We analyze clients’ contract choices in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for standard cases such as labor disputes for individuals and collecting debts for businesses. In the auctions, lawyers can submit bids with any fee arrangement they prefer, including an hourly rate, a fixed fee, and a ‘mixed fee’: a time-capped fixed fee plus an hourly rate for any additional hours should the case take ...

    In: Review of Industrial Organization 61 (2022), S. 123–148 | Flóra Felsö, Sander Onderstal, Jo Seldeslachts
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    Testing the Superstar Firm Hypothesis

    Firms with superior productivity, labeled superstar firms, are argued to be the link between rising concentration and the fall of the aggregate labor share in the US. This analysis confirms that similar evidence is found within the European context: the market share and firm size increase, whereas the labor share decreases with productivity. One of the much discussed mechanisms behind this development ...

    In: Journal of Applied Economics 25 (2022), 1, S. 583-603 | Caroline Stiel, Alexander Schiersch
  • Diskussionspapiere 2000 / 2022

    How Communication Makes the Difference between a Cartel and Tacit Collusion: A Machine Learning Approach

    This paper sheds new light on the role of communication for cartel formation. Using machine learning to evaluate free-form chat communication among firms in a laboratory experiment, we identify typical communication patterns for both explicit cartel formation and indirect attempts to collude tacitly. We document that firms are less likely to communicate explicitly about price fixing and more likely ...

    2022| Maximilian Andres, Lisa Bruttel, Jana Friedrichsen
  • Diskussionspapiere 1998 / 2022

    Facebook Shadow Profiles

    Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We quantify the extent to which Facebook can track web behavior outside of their own platform. The network of engagement ...

    2022| Luis Aguiar, Christian Peukert, Maximilian Schäfer, Hannes Ullrich
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    R&D Spillovers through RJV Cooperation

    We investigate how R&D spillovers propagate across firms linked through Research Joint Ventures (RJVs). Building on the framework developed by Bloom et al. (2013) which considers the opposing effects of knowledge spillovers and product market rivalry, we extend the model to account for RJV cooperation. Since the firm’s decision to join a RJV is endogenous, we build a model of RJV participation. The ...

    In: Research Policy 51 (2022), 4, 104465, 10 S. | Albert Banal-Estañol, Tomaso Duso, Jo Seldeslachts, Florian Szücs
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    Common Ownership Patterns in the European Banking Sector: The Impact of the Financial Crisis

    We provide a description of ownership patterns in the top 25 European banks for the period 2003–2015, where we especially focus on the global financial crisis. Investment managers, such as Blackrock, are dominant in terms of number of blockholdings in different banks, maintaining fairly stable “common ownership” networks throughout our sample. However, the financial crisis led to capital injections ...

    In: Journal of Competition Law & Economics 18 (2022), 1, S. 135–167 | Albert Banal-Estañol, Nuria Boot, Jo Seldeslachts
  • Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

    Antitrust Policy and Innovation

    Innovation has recently come to the attention of Antitrust Authorities, even though the effect of mergers on innovation is still hotly debated. I study how the activity of Antitrust Authorities impacts future innovation of merging firms. Exploiting a change in notification rules I build an event study comparing mergers notified to the authorities with non-notified ones. I develop a new methodology...

    03.12.2021| Giovanni Morzenti, Bocconi University, Milan
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