1. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

    Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long‐run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Incentivizing Creativity: A Large-Scale Experiment with Performance Bonuses and Gifts

    This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment that compared the impacts of a performance bonus and a wage gift on output from a creative task and a simple task. We find that the…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Systematic Sensitivity Analysis of the Full Economic Impacts of Sea Level Rise

    The potential impacts of sea level rise (SLR) due to climate change have been widely studied in the literature. However, the uncertainty and robustness of these estimates has seldom been explored. Here we assess…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The effects of uncertainty on market liquidity: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy

    We test the effects of uncertainty on market liquidity using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Given the unprecedented strength, scale, and nature of the storm, the potential damages of a landfall near…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2019

    BIG data – BIG gains? Understanding the link between big data analytics and innovation

    This paper analyzes the relationship between firms' use of big data analytics and their innovative performance in terms of product innovations. Since big data technologies provide new data information practices,…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Why does emissions trading under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) not affect firms’ competitiveness? Empirical findings from the literature

    Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms’ competitiveness or profitability. For the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) the empirical literature documents significant…