1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-003 // 2023

    Can Social Comparisons and Moral Appeals Increase Public Transport Ridership and Decrease Car Use?

    In a field experiment with 341 participants, we study whether social comparisons, either in isolation or in combination with a climate-related moral appeal, can change the use of public and car-related…

  2. ZEW Monthly // 2023

    01/2023 – European Monetary and Fiscal Policy

    The crises of recent years have produced important innovations in European monetary and fiscal policy. The ECB has greatly expanded its purchases of government bonds and the EU is financing budgetary spending…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2023

    The Effects of Personal Information on Competition: Consumer Privacy and Partial Price Discrimination

    This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a two dimensional duopoly model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price…

  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2023

    Januar 2023

    • Optimistischer Jahresbeginn – Konjunkturerwartungen steigen sehr stark an
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen hellen sich auf
    • USA: Positiver Trend der Erwartungen hält an, Lage verschlechtert sich
    • China:…
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-001 // 2023

    The SearchEngine: A Holistic Approach to Matching

    The SearchEngine is an open source project providing an integrated framework for diverse matching activities, especially the linkage of large scale firm data by fuzzy criteria like company names and addresses.…