Dr. Lea Bernhardt

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)


Previously, I worked in  the Firms and Markets Department at DIW Berlin. I obtained my doctorate in economics at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, my M.Sc. at University of St Andrews and my B.Sc. at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. 

Research Interests

Empirical Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Media Economics, Textmining, Platform and Digital Markets

Publications


Publications in refereed journals

The Impact of the Tax Reduction on Fuel Prices in Germany: A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Approach 

(with Xenia Breiderhoff and Ralf Dewenter) Review of Economics, 2023, 74(2), 141-160. 


Gender Bias in German Media Reports 

(with Ralf Dewenter) Journal of Media Economics, 2023, 34(4), 266-283. 


Measuring partisan media bias in US Newscasts from 2001-2012 

(with Ralf Dewenter and Tobias Thomas) European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 78, 102360. 


Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung in Plattformmärkten: Strukturelle und funktionale Entflechtung von Plattformen

 (with Paul Voges) Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, 2022, 72(12), 651-659.


Does the tonality of US newscasts indicate race and gender discrimination? 

(with Ralf Dewenter) Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 30(11), 1566-1569.  


Withdrawn and Prohibited Merger Cases in the EU

Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2021, 13(4), 296-303. 


Collusion by code or algorithmic collusion? When pricing algorithms take over

 (with Ralf Dewenter) European Competition Journal, 2020, 16(2-3), 312-342.  


Algorithmen, Künstliche Intelligenz und Wettbewerb

Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht, 2019, 314-317. 


Book Chapters

Ökonomische Grundlagen, in: Sebastian Louven, Kim Manuel Künstner (Hrsg.), Handbuch Plattform-Governance und Recht

(with Ralf Dewenter) Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 18-63. 2024.



Media

(with Tomaso Duso) Focus online, 11.11.2023


(with Tomaso Duso)  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 02.07.2023 


Other non-refereed publications


Konjunkturschlaglicht: Gemischte Signale am Arbeitsmarkt

(with Marina Eurich, Erik Haustein) Wirtschaftsdienst, 104(4), S. 287-288, April 2024. 


Breiter Industriestrompreis ist kein geeignetes Entlastungsinstrument  

(with Tomaso Duso, Robin Sogalla, and Alexander SchierschDIW Wochenbericht, 38, S. 513-521, 2023. 



Discussion Papers


The Impact of the More Economic Approach on EU Merger Decisions 

(with Ralf Dewenter) Discussion Paper No. 195, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg 


Common factors of withdrawn and prohibited merger cases in the European Union 

Discussion Paper No. 184, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg


Watchdog or loyal servant? Political media bias in US newscasts 

(with Ralf Dewenter and Tobias Thomas) DICE Discussion Paper No. 348


Contact

Email: bernhardt[@]hwwi.org

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