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Pricing, variety, and quality provision (DIPVAR)

Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

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Özlem Bedre-Defolie

DIPVAR Project Lead and Associate Professor of Economics, ESMT Berlin
+49 30 212311531

Digital Platforms: Pricing, Variety, and Quality Provision (DIPVAR)

DIPVAR is a five-year research project led by Özlem Bedre-Defolie and funded by a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. DIPVAR will offer a closer look at globally operating digital platforms, such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Google by first creating models to capture their most important peculiar aspects and then by examining the effects of dominant platforms’ practices on prices, variety, and quality provision to buyers and small rivals. On this basis, DIPVAR ultimately aims to make recommendations for an effective competition policy and regulation in digital markets, which could greatly improve consumer welfare in the European Union.

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Phone: +49 30 212 31 1274

 

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Presentations and past events

Regulating ecommerce platforms? Economics and policy

A virtual event organized by the CEPR and MaCCI, February 2022

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Platform competition for exclusivity with a marquee seller

TSE Online Economics of Platforms seminar, June 2021

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Hybrid Platform Model

TSE Online Economics of Platforms seminar, January 2021

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22nd CEPR/JIE Applied IO Conference

The 22nd CEPR/JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization took place physically in Berlin from June 13-15 2022.

Information about the conference

DIPVAR in the news

"The umpire can’t also own the team"

July 13, 2021 | ESMT Knowledge
A new research project by Özlem Bedre-Defolie, associate professor of economics at ESMT Berlin, shows how a dominant e-commerce platform harms consumers and third-party sellers by selling its own, competing products.

"How are social media giants tackling misinformation during COVID-19?"

June 26, 2020 | Open Access Government
Özlem Bedre-Defolie, associate professor of economics, analyzes how platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook are tackling misinformation during the corona crisis.

ESMT Berlin professor awarded 1.5 million euro grant for research on digital markets

September 3, 2019 | Press release
Özlem Bedre-Defolie, associate professor of economics at ESMT Berlin, has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 853123.

 

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