Hannes Ullrich

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Economist at DIW Berlin, University of Copenhagen, and Berlin School of Economics Research on Digitilization, Health Care, and Industrial Organization https://www.hannesullrich.com

Scatter plot with Y-axis "AUC Non-Users" and X-axis "AUC Users" that shows a positive correlation between the prediction quality for non-users and users of Facebook. The correlation is below one, so the scatter plot aligns underneath the diagonal line in the plot.
Screenshot of discussion paper title page with following content: Are M&As spurring or stifling innovation? Evidence from antidiabetic drug development Jan Malek, Jo Seldeslachts, Reinhilde Veugelers July 11, 2025 Abstract This paper provides empirical evidence on which M&A deals spur innovation, and which stifle it. To do so, we consider not only the product market position of the acquiring firm, but also the position of both target and acquirer in the technology space. Focusing on the antidiabetic drugs market, our dataset tracks the lifecycle and patenting of all individual antidiabetic projects in development between 1997 and 2017. We show that most terminations of acquired projects occur while the projects are still far from product market entry. Nevertheless, a number of these early-stage acquisitions have a positive impact on innovation. These cases arise when incumbents acquire projects close to their own projects in product markets, but only if these projects are also close in technology markets. Those deals are associated with increased subsequent patenting, which is consistent with the exploitation of technological synergies. Our results point to the crucial role of combining both product market and technology market positions in assessing the innovation effects of pharmaceutical M&As.
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Screenshot der Tagesspiegel Website mit Text: 18:40 Uhr Im Konrad-Adenauer-Haus trat ein strahlender Friedrich Merz vor seiner Anhänger. 18:39 Uhr Zentralrat der Juden betroffen über AfD-Ergebnis
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Spotify screenshot of the daylist playlist titled „crying relationship Sunday morning“
Bullet-point slide with the following content: Does this mean we need to be in the algorithm design business? Yes Isn't that really a CS task? No Optimal policy design must jointly optimize Ul design and algorithm
If car types are not simply substitutes, environmental policy needs to take it into account. This counts doubly so if environmental policies do not directly target their key objective – reducing emissions – but instead rely on an intermediate step, such as stimulating EV adoption. We show that failing to account for portfolio synergy leads to an overly optimistic estimate of the abatement cost of EV adoption policies. To account for this synergy, we develop and estimate a discrete-continuous model of car choice where portfolio complementarities can arise explicitly from driving. We find that bundle synergies are particularly strong between an EV and a CV. This means that households respond to EV incentives by adding an EV to their car portfolio, rather than replacing their CV. Crucially, we do not find evidence that the driving in the newly added EV significantly reduces driving in the existing CV, resulting in a near doubling of the total driving of the household. Thus, EV incentives fail to reduce fuel consumption but instead increase total driving and through that other externalities like congestion, accidents, and local pollution.
Plot with two sub-figures. The left figure shows physician private information on the Y axis and predicted risk on X axis. The scatter plot shows an inverted U-shape, so that physician private information is positive at intermediate predicted risk and negative at the extremes. The right sub-figure shows a similar inverted U-shape for rapid test claims, suggesting that point-of-care information drawn from rapid tests, which are difficult integrate in the training data, represents an important part of physicians' private information.
Scatter plot with machine learning predicted risk on X axis and true bacterial rate on Y axis. Bins of 100 observations computed for two samples: a) when physicians gave an antibiotic, b) when physicians did not give an antibiotic right away. The mean bacterial rates for sample a) are above those for sample b) throughout, indicating that physicians hold private information that cannot be used for machine learning predictions.
CNN article on X's new terms of service that will allow X to use all content on X to train its AI models.
Paper title and abstract: Social Media and Collective Action in China This paper studies how social media affects the dynamics of protests and strikes in China during 2009-2017. Based on 13.2 billion microblog posts, we use tweets and retweets to measure social media communication across cities and exploit its rapid expansion for identification. We find that, despite strict government censorship, Chinese social media has a sizeable effect on the geographical spread of protests and strikes. Furthermore, social media communication considerably expands the scope of protests by spreading events across di§erent causes (e.g., from anti-corruption protests to environmental protests) and dramatically increases the probability of far-reaching protest waves with simultaneous events occurring in many cities. These effects arise even though Chinese social media barely circulates content that explicitly helps organize protests.
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