1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Heterogeneous university funding programs and regional firm innovation: An empirical analysis of the German Excellence Initiative

    This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding programs within the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Mandatory Financial Information Disclosure and Credit Ratings

    When firms are forced to publicly disclose financial information, credit rating agencies are generally expected to improve their risk assessments. Theory predicts such an information quality effect but also…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Pandemic Effects: Do Innovation Activities of Firms Suffer from Long-COVID?

    The COVID-19 pandemic exogenously hit many economies early 2020. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a conditional difference-in-differences design to causally identify how COVID-19 impacted firms'…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    To Diversify or Not? The Link Between Global Sourcing of ICT Goods and Firm Performance

    We analyze variation in firm performance as a function of the international diversification of ICT
    imports by firms. Drawing on administrative data from 2010 and 2014 on nearly 4000 German manufacturing
    firms, we…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Combinatorial auctions for renewable energy – potentials and challenges

    Combinatorial auctions, which allow bidders to bid not only on individual items but also on packages of items and to express complementary and substitute relationships between items, have rarely been used for…

  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Beautiful Inside and Out: Peer Characteristics and Academic Performance

    This paper explores the effect of own and peer attractiveness on various measures of academic performance. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we focus on high…