1. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Unemployment and Digital Public Goods Contribution

    Economic crises often result in massive job loss. However, although reduced employment has been shown to have many negative consequences for the affected individuals, it may also push them into new activities,…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Rankings of Online Travel Agents, Channel Pricing, and Consumer Protection

    We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

    We study the short-run effect of elections on the stock of money (M1) in a sample of low and middle income countries. We find robust evidence of a new monetary election cycle: the monthly growth rate of…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Firm Characteristics and the Ability to Exercise Market Power: Empirical Evidence from the Iron Ore Market

    This paper empirically analyzes the existence of market power in the global iron ore market during the period from 1993 to 2012. Using an innovative Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach, we…

  5. Non-Refereed Journal // 2019

    Das Country-by-Country-Reporting der OECD

    The OECD's Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR), which requires large multinational companies to submit a country-by-country report to the tax authorities, was already the subject of controversial debate before…

  6. Non-Refereed Journal // 2019

    Das Country-by-Country-Reporting der OECD

    The OECD's Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR), which requires large multinationals to submit a country-by-country report to the tax authorities, was already the subject of controversial debate before the first…