1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // forthcoming

    Impacts of ownership changes on emissions and industrial production: Evidence from Europe

    Firm ownership is a major determinant for the economic performance of firms, and emissions of pollutants are often by-products of industrial production. We investigate the impact of ownership on pollutant…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // forthcoming

    Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects

    We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional effect gives…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Do managers accept artificial intelligence? Insights into the role of business area and AI functionality

    More and more companies use artificial intelligence (AI). Research aimed to understand acceptance from the perspective of AI users or people affected by AI decisions. However, the perspective of decision-makers…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    First Best Implementation With Costly Information Acquisition

    We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over a set of payoff-
    relevant states. The principal proposes a…