Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // forthcoming

    Strategies under distributional and strategic uncertaint

    I investigate the decision problem which arises in a game of incomplete information under two different types of uncertainty - uncertainty about other players’ type distributions and about other players’…

  2. ZEW policy brief No. 24-17 // 2024

    Das Verhandlungsgebot im Telekommunikationsmarkt: Analyse und Designempfehlungen

    Die Bundesnetzagentur plant eine Verlängerung der Frequenznutzungsrechte für Telefonica, Telekom und Vodafone bis zum Jahr 2030. Damit verbunden ist ein Verhandlungsgebot. Dieses verpflichtet die etablierten…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2024

    School Choice with Independent versus Consolidated Districts

    This paper studies the welfare effects of school district consolidation. Using incomplete rank-ordered lists (ROLs) submitted for admission to the Hungarian secondary school system, we estimate complete ROLs…

  4. Non-Refereed Journal // 2024

    Alleinerziehende in der Betreuungsplatzvergabe: Status quo und Handlungsempfehlungen

    Alleinerziehende Eltern und ihre Kinder profitieren besonders von frühkindlichen Bildungs- und Betreuungsangeboten. Dennoch erhalten in Deutschland knapp ein Drittel der Alleinerziehenden mit Betreuungsbedarf…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-025 // 2024

    Analysis of a Capacity-Based Redispatch Mechanism

    This paper discusses a capacity-based redispatch mechanism in which awarded market participants are compensated for their availability for redispatch, rather than activation. The rationale is to develop a market…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Combinatorial auctions for renewable energy – potentials and challenges

    Combinatorial auctions, which allow bidders to bid not only on individual items but also on packages of items and to express complementary and substitute relationships between items, have rarely been used for…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Information Acquisition and Diffusion in Markets

    Consumers acquire information through their own search efforts or through word-of-mouth
    communication within their social network. Information diffusion leads to free-riding and
    less active search. Free-riding…