1. Refereed Journal // 2016

    The risk of financial crises: Is there a role for income inequality?

    Could macroeconomic factors such as income inequality be the real root cause of financial crises? We explore a broad variety of financial and macroeconomic variables and employ a general-to-specific model…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Private Hochwasservorsorge und Elementarschadenversicherung: Moral Hazard, der Effekt von Informationskampagnen, und eine Versicherungsillusion

    In light of increasing flood damage, private flood mitigation gains more relevance. We inves-tigate empirically whether the uptake of private flood mitigation measures in Germany is af-fected by (a) the…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Complementarities in the Search for Innovation: Managing Markets and Relationships

    Extant research has characterized a firm’s search for external knowledge in its innovation activities as either relational or transactional in nature. The former implies that a firm chooses and develops…