This article studies competition in markets with transport costs and capacity constraints. Using a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect…
We document a causal impact of online user-generated information on real-world economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional content on Wikipedia pages…
The corona pandemic in 2020 gave a boost to digitalisation in Germany and showed the opportunities that it can create. However, it also became clear that there are shortcomings in the context of digitalisation.…