1. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Formal but Less Equal. Gender Wage Gaps in Formal and Informal Jobs in Urban Brazil

    In developing countries, a large share of employees work informally and are not covered by employment protection legislation. I study how gender inequality differs across formal and informal wage-earners in…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Determinants of Entry in the Deregulated German Interurban Bus Industry

    Two years after the deregulation of the German interurban bus industry in January 2013, two new entrants emerged as industry leaders: MeinFernbus (MFB) and FlixBus (FB). We use a comprehensive route-level data…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Input and Output Additionality of R&D Subsidies

    This article analyses the effects of public R&D subsidies on R&D input and output of German firms. We distinguish between the direct impact of subsidies on R&D investment and the indirect effect on innovation…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Firm capabilities, technological dynamism and the internationalisation of innovation: A behavioural approach

    We develop a behavioural framework of bounded rational decision-making under uncertainty to analyse the role of technological dynamism in the firm’s environment for its decision to internationalise innovation.…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    On the Performance of Rule-Based Contribution Schemes Under Endowment Heterogeneity

    We experimentally test different rule-based contribution mechanisms in a repeated 4-player public goods game with endowment heterogeneity and compare them to a VCM, distinguishing between a random and an…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Storm Damage and Risk Preferences: Panel Evidence from Germany

    Individuals’ risk preferences may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Fiscal Policy? A Meta-Regression-Analysis

    We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules based on 30 studies published in the last decade. The existing empirical evidence points to a constraining effect of…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Settlements and Appeals in the European Commission's Cartel Cases: An Empirical Assessment

    The introduction of the European Union (EU) Settlement Procedure in 2008 aimed at promoting the speed and efficiency of cartel investigations by the European Commission (EC). We use a data set that…