1. Refereed Journal // 2022

    The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall”: Health Perception Biases and Mental Health Among Chinese Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. To assess predictors of poor…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2022

    The EU Taxonomy’s (potential) effects on the banking sector and bank lending to firms

    One of the key pillars of the European Green Deal is a renewed sustainable finance strategy to finance sustainable growth and to channel private investments towards projects that support the transition to a…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Birthplace Diversity and Team Performance

    Using hand-collected and web-scraped data on 7,208 matches and 3,266 players from the highest division of German male football, this paper examines how birthplace diversity affects team performance. The results…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2022

    The ZEW Financial Market Survey Panel

    The ZEW Financial Market Survey is a monthly panel survey among financial market experts that was launched in December 1991. The survey focuses on the experts’ expectations about international financial markets…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2022

    The Evolution of Educational Wage Differentials for Women and Men in Germany, from 1996 to 2019

    This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany. We distinguish between degrees from academic universities, degrees from universities of applied…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers: A two-period experiment on charitable giving

    We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote prosocial behavior affect the extent to which they spill over to subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period framed field experiment to…