We provide evidence that suggests that a reduction in outside wage options reduces wage increases in retained jobs. We use the natural experiment of a reform that reduced outside wage options for employees in…
Anfang November meldete das statistische Bundesamt einen neuen Arbeitsmarktrekord. Im September 2023 hat die Erwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland erstmals die 46-Millionen-Schwelle erreicht. In Anbetracht der…
Desai and Palermo discuss the effects of Basic Income on selected economic variables. The discussion has a theoretical basis and uses a microeconomic approach. The effects that the chapter studies concern both…
Das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung in Auftrag gegebene Mannheimer Innovationspanel (MIP) feiert 2023 stolz sein 30-jähriges Bestehen. Zugleich wurde in den letzten Monaten viel über den Standort…
When lower prices are available only to consumers who search, firms can price discriminate based on search. We study local German electricity retail markets in which nonsearching consumers pay the incumbent’s…
I consider a seller selling a good to bidders with two-dimensional private information: their valuation for a good and their characteristic. While valuations are non-verifiable, characteristics are partially…
We study optimal mechanisms for a utilitarian designer who seeks to assign a finite number of goods to a group of ex ante heterogeneous agents with unit demand. The agents have heterogeneous marginal utilities…
