1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Do outside options drive wage inequalities in retained jobs? Evidence from a natural experiment

    We provide evidence that suggests that a reduction in outside wage options reduces wage increases in retained jobs. We use the natural experiment of a reform that reduced outside wage options for employees in…

  2. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Incumbency Advantages: Price Dispersion, Price Discrimination and Consumer Search at Online Platforms

    When lower prices are available only to consumers who search, firms can price discriminate based on search. We study local German electricity retail markets in which nonsearching consumers pay the incumbent’s…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

    Objectives

    Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the healthcare delivery system. Key among these was the…

  4. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Timing is key: When does the market react to unionization efforts?

    We estimate short-term capital-market effects of unionization efforts at publicly-listed firms and their subsidiaries in the United States between 2011 and 2019. Our short-horizon event study reports significant…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    A market design solution to a multi-category housing allocation problem

    We study multi-category housing allocation problems: A set of objects, which is
    sorted into categories of equal size, has to be allocated to a set of individuals, such that
    everyone obtains exactly one object from…

  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Nonparametric Instrumental Regression with Two-Way Fixed Effects

    This paper proposes a novel estimator for nonparametric instrumental regression while controlling for additive two-way fixed effects. In particular, the Landweber–Fridman regularization, to overcome the…

  7. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Can self-set goals encourage resource conservation? Field experimental evidence from a smartphone app

    This study leverages a large RCT to examine the potential of goal-setting nudges to encourage resource conservation at scale. We randomize a feature that allows subjects to set themselves energy consumption…