1. 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…

  2. 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:…
  3. 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.…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2023

    What Are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials

    While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an…

  5. ZEW-Innovationserhebung // 2023

    2022

    The ZEW Innovation Survey

  6. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage

    The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment affected women’s emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Saving regret and procrastination

    We define saving regret as the wish in hindsight to have saved more earlier in life. We measured saving regret and possible determinants in a survey of U.S. households in which respondents were aged 60-79. We…