Irene Bertschek

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Irene Bertschek is a German professor at the University of Giessen , where she holds a chair for the economics of digitization. In addition, since 2019 she has been a member of the Federal Government's Expert Commission on Research and Innovation (EFI) and head of the ZEW research area "Digital Economy" at the ZEW - Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim.

Career

Bertschek completed a degree in economics at the University of Mannheim , which she graduated with a diploma in 1992, and a master's degree at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium (Master of Arts in Economics, 1991). The main areas of study were econometrics and industrial economics . As part of the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics, he worked at the Center de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST-INSEE) in Paris , at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Institut de Statistique of the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium . In 1996 she completed her dissertation on "Semiparametric Analysis of Innovative Behavior" at the Université catholique de Louvain.

Bertschek has been working at ZEW Mannheim since 1999 , where he has headed the Digital Economy Research Department since 2001 (previously the Information and Communication Technologies Research Department).

From 2011 to 2017 she was professor for applied empirical economic research at the University of Mannheim . In 2017 she switched to the professorship for the economics of digitization at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

In May 2019 she was appointed to the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI).

research

Bertschek's research interests include industrial-economic aspects of digitization, in particular the effects of digitization on innovation, productivity and work organization in companies, the importance of social media for corporate success, digital markets and platforms. Methodologically, the empirical analysis based on company data and applied microeconometrics form the focus.

Publications (selection)

  • Irene Bertschek, Michael Polder and Patrick Schulte (2019), ICT and Resilience in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Moments Data, Economics of Innovation and New Technology 28 (8), pp. 759-74.
  • Irene Bertschek, Daniel Cerquera and Gordon J Klein (2013), More Bits - More Bucks? Measuring the Impact of Broadband Internet on Firm Performance, Information Economics and Policy 25 (3), pp. 190-203.
  • Irene Bertschek and Ulrich Kaiser (2004), Productivity Effects of Organizational Change: Microeconometric Evidence, Management Science 50 (3), pp. 394–404.
  • Irene Bertschek and Michael Lechner (1998), Convenient Estimators for the Panel Probit Model, Journal of Econometrics 87 (2), pp. 329-71.
  • Irene Bertschek (1995), Product and Process Innovation as a Response to Increasing Imports and Foreign Direct Investment, The Journal of Industrial Economics, pp. 341-57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZEW website. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Website of the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Expert commission for research and innovation: short biography. In: Expert Commission for Research and Innovation. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ZEW employee: Prof. Dr. Irene Bertschek. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bertschek, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century