Referierte Fachzeitschriften

  1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Pricing Carbon in a Multi-Sector Economy with Social Discounting

    Economists tend to view a uniform emissions price as the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper scrutinizes the assumptions in general equilibrium which underlie the…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    The Demand for Voluntary Carbon Sequestration – Experimental Evidence from a Reforestation Project in Germany

    This study explores the individual willingness to pay (WTP) for carbon removal through afforestation as a complementary climate change mitigation strategy. Using a framed-field experiment, we assess the impact…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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'…