1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Are the Supporters of Socialism the Losers of Capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and Transition Success

    The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization has a long-lasting impact on former supporters or opponents of the bygone regime. With newly available individual-level data of…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Local Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation Persistence of Firms

    Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Short and Long-Run Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America

    We simulate the short- and long-term distributional consequences of COVID-19 in the four largest Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting

    In the classical cake-cutting problem, strategy-proofness is a very costly requirement in terms of fairness: for n=2 it implies a dictatorial allocation, whereas for n ≥ 3 it implies that one agent receives no…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Fair cake-cutting in practice

    Using two lab experiments, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. Although the observed subjects'…

  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Pursuing Gains or Avoiding Losses: The Contingent Effect of Transgenerational Intentions on Innovation Investments

    Many business-owning families aspire to someday transfer their firm to the next family generation. Controversy surrounds the question of how these transgenerational intentions affect risky growth strategies such…

  7. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Cournot, Pigou, and Ricardo walk in a bar —Unilateral environmental policy and leakage with market power and firm heterogeneity

    We study the determinants of emission leakage using a two-country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms and Cournot competition. We show that firms from the nonregulating country respond to the…

  8. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2022

    Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology

    This article shows that competition exerts a feedback effect on market structure via the process of innovation. First, downstream competition increases the willingness to pay for a more efficient technology (the…