1. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances

    Firms may seek non-redundant information through inter-firm relations beyond their geographic and cognitive boundaries (i.e., relations with firms in other regions and active in different fields). Little is…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Incumbency Advantages: Price Dispersion, Price Discrimination and Consumer Search at Online Platforms

    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…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

    Objectives

    Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the healthcare delivery system. Key among these was the…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Timing is key: When does the market react to unionization efforts?

    We estimate short-term capital-market effects of unionization efforts at publicly-listed firms and their subsidiaries in the United States between 2011 and 2019. Our short-horizon event study reports significant…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2023

    A market design solution to a multi-category housing allocation problem

    We study multi-category housing allocation problems: A set of objects, which is sorted into categories of equal size, has to be allocated to a set of individuals, such that everyone obtains exactly one object…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Nonparametric Instrumental Regression with Two-Way Fixed Effects

    This paper proposes a novel estimator for nonparametric instrumental regression while controlling for additive two-way fixed effects. In particular, the Landweber–Fridman regularization, to overcome the…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Can self-set goals encourage resource conservation? Field experimental evidence from a smartphone app

    This study leverages a large RCT to examine the potential of goal-setting nudges to encourage resource conservation at scale. We randomize a feature that allows subjects to set themselves energy consumption…