1. Refereed Journal // 2023

    The demand for public flood protection under a compulsory private flood insurance scheme

    After the 2021 flood events in Germany, the introduction of compulsory flood insurance is debated. However, insurance coverage for private buildings and belongings may undermine the willingness to pay for…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2023

    More Cost-Sharing, Less Cost? Evidence on Reference Price Drugs

    This paper evaluates the causal effects of changes in reference prices (RP) on prices, copayments, and overall expenditures for off-patent pharmaceuticals. With reference pricing, firms set prices freely and the…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Do preferences for urban amenities differ by skill?

    By investing in urban amenities, city-level policies often aim to attract highly skilled workers. However, studies relying on revealed preferences struggle to provide causal evidence that skilled workers value…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2023

    How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost Sharing?

    The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital…

  5. Refereed Journal // 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…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Entry in First-price Auctions with Signaling

    We study the optimal entry fee in a symmetric private value first-price auction with signaling, in which the participation decisions and the auction outcome are used by an outside observer to infer the…

  7. Refereed Journal // 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…