Der für die Gastronomie aktuell reduzierte Mehrwertsteuersatz soll Ende 2023 auslaufen. Allerdings wünschen sich einige Politiker/innen, Verbände und Gastwirte/-innen eine Entfristung der 7-Prozent-Regelung und…
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…
The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a career-oriented social networking platform…
Policymakers regularly rely on public financial institutions and government offices to provide loans to clean energy projects. However, the market failures that public loan provision addresses and the role it…
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…
This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to…
Die schnell voranschreitende Digitalisierung bietet als Enabler enorme Chancen für mehr Energieeffizienz und die Integration von Erneuerbaren Energien – und damit für Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit. Gleichzeitig…
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…
Clustering of the two most competitive bids in first-price auctions can be indicative of collusive behavior. However, it can also reflect non-cooperative strategies under complete information. I propose a simple…
