Irene Bertschek
{{Short description|German economist}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2023}}
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- University of Mannheim
- UCLouvain {{Small|(MA, PhD)}}
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| thesis_title = Semiparametric analysis of innovative behavior
| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/190660
| thesis_year = 1996
| discipline = Economist
| sub_discipline = {{Plainlist|
- Digital transformation
- Microeconometrics
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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 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 (Diploma, 1992) and at Université catholique de Louvain 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 of Berlin and at the Institut de Statistique Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). In 1996, she completed her doctoral thesis on "Semiparametric Analysis of Innovative Behaviour" at UCLouvain.{{cite web |date= |title=Prof. Dr. Irene Bertschek |url=https://www.zew.de/en/team/ibe/ |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research |publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.e-fi.de/fileadmin/Assets/Kurzbiographien/Prof._Dr._Irene_Bertschek__E-FI_.pdf |title=short biography |work=Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation |publisher= |date=April 15, 2021}}
Research
Bertschek researches industrial economic aspects of digitalisation 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.
Selected publications
- {{Cite journal |last=Bertschek |first=Irene |last2=Polder |first2=Michael |last3=Schulte |first3=Patrick |date=2019-11-17 |title=ICT and resilience in times of crisis: evidence from cross-country micro moments data |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10438599.2018.1557417 |journal=Economics of Innovation and New Technology |language=en |volume=28 |issue=8 |pages=759–774 |doi=10.1080/10438599.2018.1557417 |issn=1043-8599|hdl=10419/167620 |hdl-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Bertschek |first=Irene |last2=Cerquera |first2=Daniel |last3=Klein |first3=Gordon J. |date=September 2013 |title=More bits – more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167624512000509 |journal=Information Economics and Policy |language=en |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=190–203 |doi=10.1016/j.infoecopol.2012.11.002}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Bertschek |first=Irene |last2=Kaiser |first2=Ulrich |date=March 2004 |title=Productivity Effects of Organizational Change: Microeconometric Evidence |url=https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.1030.0195 |journal=Management Science |language=en |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=394–404 |doi=10.1287/mnsc.1030.0195 |issn=0025-1909|hdl=10419/24453 |hdl-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Bertschek |first=Irene |last2=Lechner |first2=Michael |date=December 1998 |title=Convenient estimators for the panel probit model |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304407698000086 |journal=Journal of Econometrics |language=en |volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=329–371 |doi=10.1016/S0304-4076(98)00008-6}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Bertschek |first=Irene |date=December 1995 |title=Product and Process Innovation as a Response to Increasing Imports and Foreign Direct Investment |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2950548?origin=crossref |journal=The Journal of Industrial Economics |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=341 |doi=10.2307/2950548}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.zew.de/en/forschung/digitale-oekonomie/ Research Department Digital Economy at ZEW Mannheim]
- [https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb02/fb/professuren/vwl/bertschek?set_language=en/ Professor of Economics of Digitalisation at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen]
- [https://www.e-fi.de/1/ Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation]
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Category:German women academics
Category:German women economists