1. Refereed Journal // 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…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Directing Young Dropouts via SMS: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Although short message services (SMS) are constantly used to transmit information, little is known about the use of SMS by public institutions to direct people. This paper presents a field experiment in France…

  3. Refereed Journal // 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…

  4. Refereed Journal // 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…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Measuring the effects of COVID-19-related night curfews: Empirical evidence from Germany

    We estimate the impact of local night curfews in Hesse, the fifth most populous federal state in Germany, on the growth of incidences of COVID-19 cases residing within the “second wave” of the pandemic. Thereby,…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Would households understand average inflation targeting?

    Yes, they would. In a randomized control trial, we provide groups of respondents from the Bundesbank Online Panel Households with information about a hypothetical alternative ECB monetary policy regime akin to…

  7. Discussion and Working Paper // 2022

    Extending the procedure of Engelberg et al. (2009) to surveys with varying interval-widths

    The approach by Engelberg, Manski, and Williams (2009) to convert probabilistic survey responses into continuous probability distributions implicitly assumes that the question intervals are equally wide. Almost…