Publications of the Research Unit Market Design

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-039 // 2025

    Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Role of Communication in an Experiment With Procurement Managers

    We investigate how buyer-supplier communication affects procurement prices, comparing auctions without direct communication to negotiations allowing it. In controlled experiments involving students and…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Analysis of a capacity-based redispatch mechanism

    This paper discusses a capacity-based redispatch mechanism in which awarded market participants are compensated for their availability for redispatch, rather than activation. The rationale is to develop a market…

  3. Non-Refereed Journal // 2025

    Folgen (zu) früher Leistungsdifferenzierung: Lehren aus Ungarn für das deutsche Schulsystem

    Schultracking basiert auf der frühen Aufteilung von Lernenden nach Leistung, doch seine Wirkung auf Kompetenzentwicklung ist empirisch unklar. Wir zeigen, dass ein breiterer Zugang zum Gymnasium…

  4. Non-Refereed Journal // 2025

    Mit Ungeduld zu besseren Subventionen für umweltfreundliche Produkte

    Subventionen für nachhaltige Produkte sind ein weit verbreitetes umweltpolitisches Instrument. Allerdings sind sie häufig ineffizient, da sie nach dem Gießkannenprinzip vergeben werden und somit auch…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-023 // 2025

    Sorting, Status, and Shadow Education: How Track Placement Shapes Parental Investment

    Educational tracking—separating students into tracks or schools by ability — is commonplace, but access and preferences for top programs often depend on socioeconomic status (SES), reinforcing inequality. We…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-009 // 2025

    Bidding for Subsidies With One’s Patience

    We study the problem of distributing subsidies in a market that includes both marginal individuals in need of assistance and infra-marginal individuals who would purchase the subsidized product without…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2025

    First Best Implementation With Costly Information Acquisition

    We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over a set of payoff-relevant states. The principal proposes a…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2025

    LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation

    We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ fictitious LinkedIn profiles. In the first stage, we vary race via…