Tomaso Duso

Wer sich fuer die Praesentationen der Konferenz "Economy and Power" letzte Woche am @euckeninstitut.bsky.social interessiert - die sind jetzt online (Link im naechsten Tweet). Meine Praesentation zu "Quo vadis, USA?" ist dabei, aber auch die von @tomasoduso.bsky.social dazu, wie man smart

The July/August issue is out now, w/ articles by @sandertordoir.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @guntramwolff.bsky.social, @steinbacharmin.bsky.social‬ @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, @tomasoduso.bsky.social @ilianos.bsky.social et al.
Read the full issue at www.intereconomics.eu/archive/year...

Seit letztem Sommer untersuchen wir verschiedene Lieferketten vertieft – Milch, Fleisch, Getreide.
Im Oktober veröffentlichen wir ein Sondergutachten mit neuen Daten, Trends, Analysen und evidenzbasierten Empfehlungen.

#Lebensmittelpreise #Lieferketten #UTPRichtlinie #Kartellrecht

In unserem Hauptgutachten 2024 (www.monopolkommission.de/de/gutachten...) haben wir festgestellt:

➡️ Preisaufschläge für Landwirt:innen gesunken, ihre Position in der Lieferkette hat sich verschlechtert
➡️ Hersteller & Handel gewinnen an Einfluss
➡️ Politische Maßnahmen bisher kaum wirksam

30.000 Kassenzettel zeigen: So teuer sind Lebensmittel bei Rewe, Edeka, Aldi und Lidl wirklich In Deutschland werden Lebensmittel beim Einkaufen teurer. Wie es zu den hohen Preisen im Supermarkt kommt und was Verbraucher wissen sollten.

In der neuen ZDF-Doku über #Lebensmittelpreise geht es um Machtverschiebungen in der Versorgungskette – und ich durfte einige Einschätzungen teilen.
🔗 www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/s...

Die #Monopolkommission beschäftigt sich seit zwei Jahren mit genau diesen Fragen.

DIW Berlin: Clean Production, Dirty Sourcing: How Embodied Emissions Alter the Environmental Footprint of Exporters This paper revisits the exporter’s environmental premium (EEP) by incorporating emissions embodied in domestically and internationally sourced intermediate inputs. Combining administrative firm-level ...

New WP:
"𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙀𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨"
📄 www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....
👥 Till Köveker, Philipp Richter and Alexander Schiersch

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A Retrospective Study of State aid Control in the German Broadband Market Abstract. We provide an evaluation of the impact of German public subsidy schemes in municipalities of Bavaria and Lower Saxony aimed at supporting the dep

Forthcoming article by @tomasoduso.bsky.social Mattia Nardotto and Jo Seldeslachts "A Retrospective Study of State Aid Control in the German Broadband Market" @eeanews.bsky.social

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Mit dem geplanten #Sondervermögen Infrastruktur hat Deutschland eine historische Chance, die Bahn grundlegend zu erneuern. Aber Geld alleine reicht nicht aus“, sagt DIW-Forscher und Experte für Wettbewerbspolitik Tomaso Duso.

„Mit dem geplanten #Sondervermögen Infrastruktur hat Deutschland eine historische Chance, die #Bahn grundlegend zu erneuern. Aber Geld alleine reicht nicht aus“, sagt DIW-Forscher und Experte für Wettbewerbspolitik @tomasoduso.bsky.social. Sein Statement dazu: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

⭐Join us online for a high-level debate on merger control in Europe
Featuring E Tarantino, S Athey, @janeeckhout.bsky.social, P Heidhues, F Ederer, @tomasoduso.bsky.social
Moderator: @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social
14 July @ 17:00 CEST
cepr.org/events/updat...
@tomvalletti.bsky.social

Graph of the effect of receiving COVID-19 aid on firm's turnover, by size, in Spain and Italy. Micro-firms were helped more than medium and large firms. The unprecedented wave of state aid to firms across the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about who benefited and how effective these interventions were. This column uses firm-level data from Spain and Italy – two of the countries worst affected by the pandemic – to evaluate the economic impact of aid. Targeted support for micro and small firms increased revenues and investment but had little impact on medium and large firms’ performance. Crisis support should focus on the most vulnerable businesses, and broad subsidies to large firms scrutinised.

Targeted support for micro and small #firms during the #pandemic increased revenues and investment but had little impact on medium and large firms' performance.
G Canzian, E Crivellaro, @tomasoduso.bsky.social, A Rita Ferrara, A Sasso, S Verzillo
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

EU #defence procurement is high on the agenda these days 🇪🇺. Let‘s design procedures & mechanisms so that #competition & innovation are fostered, not stifled. Our Monopolies Commission letter to @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu & @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu: monopolkommission.de/en/

📖 Full results available here 👉 cepr.org/publications...

📝 And a policy brief in German 👉 tinyurl.com/4hupnkht

#CompetitionPolicy #StateAid #COVID19 #SMEs #CrisisManagement #CleanIndustrialDeal #JRC

@diw.de

Temporary, targeted support for micro & small firms strengthens economic resilience. However, extending subsidies to large firms should be critically reassessed especially with the EU’s upcoming Clean Industrial Deal, as aid has limited effectiveness for them while risk of market distortions rises.

We also find that micro and small enterprises significantly increased their investments in tangible and especially intangible assets, i.e. they used the aid to improve their digitalisation.

We focus on Spain and Italy, two hard hit economies with extensive aid programmes. We use a diff-in-diff methodology with propensity score matching and find that micro & small firms had significantly higher revenues compared to a control group 2 years after the pandemic, but medium & large firms not

Between 2019 and 2022, EU Member States will grant more than €1 trillion in state aid, much of it to support businesses through the pandemic, with large differences between Member States in both the amount and intensity of aid relative to GDP.

How effectively did public support reach companies during the #COVID-19 pandemic? Building on earlier work for the European Commission, our latest study shows: In Spain and Italy COVID aid was highly effective for micro and small enterprises but not for medium and large.

Mehr Wettbewerb bei #Rüstungsausgaben: das fordert die Monopolkommission. Die #Bundesregierung solle dafür sorgen, dass die Rüstungsbeschaffung unbürokratisch & in Koordination mit den europäischen Partnern stattfindet. DIW-Forscher & Vorsitzender der Monopolkommission @tomasoduso.bsky.social dazu ⬇️

👉Here is our full statement: www.monopolkommission.de/images/PDF/P...

#Competition is not just vital for economic growth; it is critical for our #security. Europe must ensure its procurement systems promote innovation, open market opportunities for start-ups, and avoid monopolistic structures that risk our security resilience for decades to come.

Initiatives like @sprind-en.bsky.social serve as excellent examples of new institutional approaches that support innovation and could be expanded to foster collaboration between the defence and emerging technology sectors.

Balancing Urgency & Innovation: A dual-track strategy combining proven suppliers with competitive innovation programmes will enhance both immediate operational readiness and long-term tech leadership. This strategy will help EU build up its edge in areas like #AI, #cybersecurity & #unmanned systems.

Simplification & Acceleration of Procurement: procurement processes often favor established contractors. We need flexible, innovation-friendly procurement models that open doors for SMEs and emerging tech firms fostering #dual-use technologies that strengthen both defence and civilian sectors.

Stronger European #Coordination & #Interoperability:
Member States must align procurement strategies, pool demand, and prioritise interoperability from the outset. Institutions like the proposed European Defence Mechanism could become catalysts for cross-border cooperation in defence technology.

Today, we, the Monopolies Commission, call for a competition-driven approach to #defence spending in Europe. We recommend to make defence #procurement agile, efficient, and competitive, with a strong emphasis on European technology and #interoperability.

Here are the key areas we are focusing on:

Gute Nachricht: #Koalitionsvertrag sieht Zeitplan für Forschungsdatengesetz noch dieses Jahr vor!

Instrumente wie der Digital Markets Act dürfen nicht zur Verhandlungsmasse degradiert werden, ihre strikte Anwendung ist rechtlich geboten und zentral für die digitale Souveränität Europas. Zitat Tomaso Duso

Europas Antwort auf US-Zölle sollte Resilienz und nicht Eskalation sein –
@tomasoduso.bsky.social argumentiert für Vorsicht als Reaktion auf die US-Zölle. Statt auf kurzfristige Druckmaßnahmen sollte die EU langfristig in ihre digitale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit investieren:
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Interesting proposal on how to make common EU defence spending feasible by @guntramwolff.bsky.social, @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social and #ArminSteinbach.

Here is the full policy brief: www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...

@bruegel.bsky.social

DIW Berlin: Trump’s Tariffs: What Escalating Trade Tensions with the US Imply for EU Exporters and Supply Chains US trade policy has taken a sharp turn away from multilateralism, with sweeping new tariffs posing a serious threat to global supply chains. As the US remains the EU’s largest export market for goods,...

In preparation for today’s expected announcement of sweeping new tariffs, I’ve been exploring granular data on maritime exports of EU businesses to the US. As Brussels gears up to respond, here are some important factors to keep in mind🧵
Link to full study: tinyurl.com/5h729r8z

Der Staat als Mega-Investor 💶 braucht Mechanismen, damit es nicht zu windfall profits, Preisexplosionen & Abhängigkeiten kommt. Tomaso Duso & ich (#Monopolkommission) haben dazu ein paar Prinzipien - heute im Handelsblatt 👇🏼

www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/gast...