Dr. Lea Bernhardt
Professional Career
Lea Bernhardt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) and Helmut Schmidt University.
She studied Economics and Management at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (B.Sc.) and at the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews, UK (M.Sc.). After completing her studies, she worked for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and for Berenberg Bank in Hamburg. In March 2023, she received her doctorate in Economics at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, supervised by Prof. Ralf Dewenter. Subsequently, she joined the Firms and Markets Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
Research Interests
Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Media Economics, Platform economics
Representative Publications
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter (2024): Ökonomische Grundlagen, in: Sebastian Louven, Kim Manuel Künstner (Editor), Handbuch Plattform-Governance und Recht, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 18-63.
- Lea Bernhardt, Xenia Breiderhoff, Ralf Dewenter (2023): The Impact of the Tax Reduction on Fuel Prices in Germany – A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Approach, in: Review of Economics 74(2), 141-160.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter, Tobias Thomas (2023): Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012, in: European Journal of Political Economy 78, 102360.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter (2022): Does the tonality of US newscasts indicate race and gender discrimination?, in: Applied Economics Letters 30(11), 1566-1569.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter (2020): Collusion by code or algorithmic collusion? When pricing algorithms take over, in: European Competition Journal 16(2-3), 312-342.
All publications
Refereed Articles
- Lea Bernhardt, Marina Eurich, Erik Haustein (2024): Gemischte Signale am Arbeitsmarkt, in: Wirtschaftsdienst 104(4), 287-288.
- Lea Bernhardt, Xenia Breiderhoff, Ralf Dewenter (2023): The Impact of the Tax Reduction on Fuel Prices in Germany – A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Approach, in: Review of Economics 74(2), 141-160.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter, Tobias Thomas (2023): Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012, in: European Journal of Political Economy 78, 102360.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter (2023): Gender Bias in German Media Reports, in: Journal of Media Economics 34(4), 266-283.
- Lea Bernhardt, Paul Voges (2022): Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung in Plattformmärkten. , in: Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb 72(12), 651-659.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter (2022): Does the tonality of US newscasts indicate race and gender discrimination?, in: Applied Economics Letters 30(11), 1566-1569.
- Lea Bernhardt (2021): Withdrawn and Prohibited Merger Cases in the EU, in: Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 13(4), 296-303.
- Lea Bernhardt, Ralf Dewenter (2020): Collusion by code or algorithmic collusion? When pricing algorithms take over, in: European Competition Journal 16(2-3), 312-342.
Contact
PhoneEmailbernhardt@hwwi.org
Personal Websitehttps://sites.google.com/view/leabernhardt/startseite