Digital Economy Workshop Berlin, 2025

Firms and Markets Department, DIW Berlin, March 23-25, 2025

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from Economics, Information Systems, Law, Marketing, Strategy, and related fields who study Digitization. 

Organizers: Hannes Ullrich, Themistoklis Kampouris, Carl Kreuzberg

Agenda

Sunday, March 23, 2025 

16:00-17:00 Walk from DIW Berlin to Museumsinsel

17:00-19:30 Museumsinsel: Guided architecture tour

19:30 Dinner at Zur Gerichtslaube in Nikolaiviertel (Google maps)

Monday, March 24, 2025 

8:30-9:40 Coffee and registration (DIW Berlin, Ostrom Hall)

9:40-9:45 Welcome

9:45-10:45 Digital Media (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Carl Kreuzberg (DIW Berlin)

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Parallel Sessions

Session A: Online Demand (Ostrom Hall, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Themistoklis Kampouris (DIW Berlin)

Session B: Online Content (Room Karl Popper, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Maja Adena (WZB)

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:00 Parallel Sessions

Session A:  Political Economy (Ostrom Hall, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Marita Freimane (University of Zurich and KU Leuven)

Session B:  Privacy (Room Karl Popper, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and TU Berlin)

Discussant: Michail Batikas (Nova SBE)

Discussant: Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Data and AI (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Martin Quinn (Rotterdam School of Management)

19:00 Dinner at acht&dreissig (Google maps)

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

9:00-9:30 Coffee (DIW Berlin, Ostrom Hall)

9:30-10:45 Platforms (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne)

Discussant: Ulrich Laitenberger (Tilburg University)

Discussant: Narine Yegoryan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:15 Digital Content and Innovation (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Temulun Borjigen (DIW Berlin)

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Keynote address

Gregory Crawford (Chief Economist at Zalando, Professor of Economics at University of Zurich)
The Future of Academic Research in Digital Economics and Empirical IO (?)
Chair: Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen)

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:15 Platforms (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich)

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-17:10 Innovation (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Nikos Mylonopoulos (Alba Business School)

17:10-17:30 Wrap-up Session (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes Q&A)

17:30 Announcements & Farewell

Venue

DIW Berlin
Mohrenstr. 58
10117 Berlin
Locate on Google Maps

Some nearby accommodation options

Garner Hotel Berlin – Gendarmenmarkt

Charlottenstr. 66
10117 Berlin

Garner Hotel Berlin – Mitte

Zimmerstraße 88
10117 Berlin

Gat Point Charlie

Mauerstrasse 81-82
10117 Berlin

Motel One Berlin - Potsdamer Platz

Leipziger Platz 12
10117 Berlin

Hilton Berlin

Mohrenstrasse 30
10117 Berlin

Participants

Maja Adena
Luis Aguiar
Sverrir Arnórsson
Mimansa Bairathi
Shrabastee Banerjee
Michail Batikas
Leonard Baum
Temulun Borjigen
Jacopo Bregolin
Francesco Capozza
Gregory Crawford
Alex Cuntz
Anastasia Danilov
Lachlan Deer
Rémi Devaux
Verena Dorner
Florian Dost
Michaela Draganska
Antoine Dubus
Uğurcan Dündar

Tomaso Duso
Rosa Ferrer
Marita Freimane
Hans Friederiszick
Elzbieta Glowicka
Morgane Guignard
Dominik Gutt
Timo Haller
Irina Heimbach
Florian Hett
Dominik Hübler
Rufat Ismayilov
Lennart Jarmolinski
Thomas Jungbauer
Franziska Kaiser
Aarushi Kalra
Themistoklis Kampouris
Otto Kässi
Jessica Kim
Daniel Klapper

Susanne Klausing
Carl Kreuzberg
Ulrich Laitenberger
Jeremiah Lewis
Yongdong Liu
Raveesh Mayya
Klaus Miller
Elliot Motte
Nikos Mylonopoulos
Ambre Nicolle
Rainer Nitsche
Maedeh Norouzi
Georgios Petropoulos
Christian Peukert
Ulrike Phieler
Martina Pocchiari
Martin Quinn
Kai Reinhardt
David Ronayne
Luca Rossi

Maximilian Schaefer
Bernd Skiera
Ruiqi Sun
Kevin Tran
Merle Uhl
Hannes Ullrich
Sebastian Valet
Nicole Venus
Ohad Volvovitch
Stefan Wagner
Michael Ward
Narine Yegoryan
Dainis Zegners
Fan Zhang
Jie Zhou
Liyang Zhou
Kai Zhu

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