Irene Bertschek is a German economist and head of the Research Department Digital Economy at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. She holds a professorship of economics of digitalisation at

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

and is a member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), advising the Federal German government.

Biography and career

Bertschek studied economics with a focus on industrial economics and econometrics at

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

(Diploma, 1992) and at

Université catholique de Louvain The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...

in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (M.A., 1991). Within the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics, she held positions at the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST-INSEE) in Paris, at the

Humboldt University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of ...

Berlin and at the Institut de Statistique

. In 1996, she completed her doctoral thesis on „Semiparametric Analysis of Innovative Behaviour“ at Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Research

In her research, Bertschek investigates industrial economic aspects of digitalization with a special focus on the impact of digitalisation on firms’ innovation, productivity and work organization. Her methodological expertise lies in the field of microeconometrics and the analysis of firm-level data.

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), S. 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), S. 190–203. * Irene Bertschek and Ulrich Kaiser (2004), Productivity Effects of Organizational Change: Microeconometric Evidence, ''Management Science'' 50(3), S. 394–404. * Irene Bertschek and Michael Lechner (1998), Convenient Estimators for the Panel Probit Model, ''Journal of Econometrics'' 87(2), S. 329–71. * Irene Bertschek (1995), Product and Process Innovation as a Response to Increasing Imports and Foreign Direct Investment, ''The Journal of Industrial Economics,'' S. 341–57.

References

External links

Research Department Digital Economy at ZEW Mannheim

Professor of Economics of Digitalisation at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation
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