Vergabe von Kindergartenplätzen, Versteigerung von Mobilfunkfrequenzen, Verteilung von Spenden – Märkte sind vielfältig und können durch eine effiziente Gestaltung von Marktregeln verbessert werden. Marktdesign…
Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety…
A central motivating factor for studying price markups is their effect on consumer welfare. Reported estimates of (firm-level) price markups in the literature, however, are often focused on industry or…
Despite some advantages over traditional (offline) labor markets – such as lower search costs, better matching and improved monitoring – online labor markets (OLMs) have not taken off as initially expected. In…
Die Corona-Warn-App kann Menschenleben retten. Das Grundprinzip solcher Smartphone-Apps zur digitalen Kontaktnachverfolgung ist einfach: Infizierte melden ihre Infektion in der App. Andere Nutzer, die jüngst…
We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how – in times of crisis – depositors react to a bank nationalization, re-privatization and an accompanying increase in deposit insurance. Nationalization…
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made all the more clear that public health is a public good. Public health interventions try to encourage contributions to this public good. Digital public health interventions are…
This paper analyzes a market in which two horizontally differentiated firms compete by setting menus of two-part tariffs, and in which some consumers are not informed about the linear per-unit price component.…
We describe a new mechanism - what we call a booster draft - for allocating multiple, indivisible objects among a group of individuals. The mechanism’s appeal lies in its strategy-proofness and simplicity:…
