Irene Bertschek
Economist at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
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Dr. Irene Bertschek is a Head of Digital Economy at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
In May 2019, she was appointed as a member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), advising the Federal German government.
In July 2022 she was appointed to the Future Council by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
In her research, she investigates how digitalization changes economic processes and how it affects firms’ labour productivity and innovation activity.
Her methodological expertise lies in the field of microeconometrics and the analysis of firm-level data.
She studied Economics at the University of Mannheim and at the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, focusing on industrial economics and econometrics.
She attended the European Doctoral Program and obtained a doctoral degree in economics from the Catholic University of Louvain.
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Economist | 01/01/1999 |
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Finance |
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