Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies

BCCP’s research agenda is shaped by three main research questions: 1) What characterizes consumer and market behavior? 2) How should policies be optimally designed to protect consumers? 3) Are the existing institutions and policies effective? These research questions are applied to different topics and policy areas. With about 80 members, the spectrum of BCCP’s current research projects is broad. As a natural evolution of BCCP’s work over the past years, the effects of digitization on consumers and market participants are therefore a common theme throughout our three main research areas of consumer and market behavior, policy design and policy evaluation and a key topic in our research agenda.

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Articles in Refereed Journals
Adena, M. and Huck, S. (2020). Online fundraising, self- image, and the long- term impact of ask avoidance. Management Science, 66(2): 722-743.
Argentesi, I., Buccirossi, P., Calvano, E., Duso, T., Marrazzo, A. and Nava, S. (2020). Merger Policy in Digital Markets: An Ex-Post Assessment. Journal of Competition law & Economics: forthcoming.
Asseyer, A. (2020). Collusion and Delegation under Information Control. Theoretical Economics: forthcoming.
Chatsiou, K. and Mikhaylov, S. J. (2020). Deep Learning for Political Science. airXiv preprint, airXiv: 2005.06540.
Chiappinelli, O. (2020). Decentralization and public procurement performance: new evidence from Italy. Economic Inquiry, 58(2).
All publications in refereed journals
Discussion Papers
Adena, M. and Hager, A. (2020). Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nation- wide field experiment on Facebook. WZB Working Paper SP II 2020-302.
Adena, M. and Huck, S. (2020). Voluntary “donations” versus reward-oriented “contributions:” Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms. WZB Working Paper SP II 2016-308r.
Adena, M., Enikolopov, R., Petrova, M. and Voth, H.-J. (2020). Bombs, Broadcasts and Resistance: Allied Intervention and Domestic Opposition to the Nazi Regime During World War II. SSRN Working Paper.
Adena, M., Hakimov, R. and Huck, S. (2020). Chritable giving by the poor. A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan. WZB Working Paper SP IIn2039-305r.
All publications in discussion papers
Other Publications
Bach, S., Jessen, J., Haan, P., Peter, F., Spieß, C. K., Wrohlich, K. (2020). Fiskalische Wirkungen eines weiteren Ausbaus ganztätiger Betreuungsangebote für Kinder im Grundschulalter: Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend. DIW Politikberatung kompakt, 146, III.
Baldi, G., Clemens, M., Dany-Knedlik, G., Engerer, H., Fratzscher, M., Gebauer, S., Hanisch, M., Junker, S., Kholodilin, K. A., Michelsen, C., Pagenhardt, L., Rieth, M. and Schlaak, T. (2020). Germany Hit Hard by the Global Recession as Uncertainty Weighs heavy: Editorial. DIW Weekly Report, 24/25: 276-279.
Baldi, G., Dany- Knedlik, G., Engerer, H., Gebauer, S., Michelsen, C. and Rieth, M. (2020). Coronavirus Pandemic Plunging Global Economy into a Serious Recession: DIW Economic Outlook. DIW Weekly Report, 24/25: 280-282.
All publications in other publications