Discussion papers

#	project	title	author

293/2021	A01	Patience and Comparative Development	Uwe Sunde, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Gerrit Meyerheim

292/2021	C03	Optimal Retail Contracts With Return Policies	Ying-Ju Chen, Zhengqing Gui, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, Xiaojian Zhao

290/2021	B01	Monotonic Norms and Orthogonal Issues in Multidimensional Voting	Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Xianwen Shi

289/2021	B01	Voting Agendas and Preferences on Trees: Theory and Practice	Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu

288/2021	B01	Extreme Points and Majorization: Economic Applications	Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack

287/2021	C01	Rational vs. Irrational Beliefs in a Complex World	Gregor Boehl, Cars Hommes

286/2021	A04	Gibrat's Law for Cities: Evidence From World War I Casualties	Antonio Ciccone

285/2021	B07	The Habit-Forming Effects of Feedback: Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Experiment	David P. Byrne, Lorenz Goette, Leslie A. Martin, Lucy Delahey, Alana Jones, Amy Miles, Samuel Schob, Thorsten Staake, Verena Tiefenbeck

284/2021	B02	Representation Is Not Sufficient For Selecting Gender Diversity	Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe, Emanuele Tarantino

283/2021	B07	The Dynamics of Goal Setting: Evidence From a Field Experiment on Resource Conservation	Lorenz Goette, Hua-Jing Han, Zhi Hao Lim

282/2021	B02	Markups for Consumers	Bernhard Ganglmair, Alexander Kann, Ilona Tsanko

281/2021	B03	Collective Brand Reputation	Volker Nocke, Roland Strausz

280/2021	B03	Competitive Price Discrimination, Imperfect Information, and Consumer Search	Carl-Christian Groh

279/2021	A02	Credit Conditions When Lenders Are Commonly Owned	Mattia Colombo, Laura Grigolon, Emanuele Tarantino

278/2021	B05	Partial Compatibility in Oligopoly	Federico Innocenti, Domenico Menicucci

277/2021	A02	Stigma as a Barrier to Treatment and Adoption of Innovation	Laura Grigolon, Laura Lasio

276/2021	A03 B05	Eating Habits: The Role of Early Life Experiences and Intergenerational Transmission	Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Elisabetta Olivieri, Eleftheria Triviza

275/2021	C03	Market Depth, Leverage, and Speculative Bubbles	Zeno Enders, Hendrik Hakenes

274/2021	C01	Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence From the Lab and Field	Rawley Heimer, Zwetelina Iliewa, Alex Imas, Martin Weber

273/2021	C01	Gender Differences in Financial Advice	Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Andreas Hackethal, Johannes Koenen, Christine Laudenbach

272/2021	C01	The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes	Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Axel Wogrolly, Christian Zimpelmann

271/2021	C01	The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels	Bettina Siflinger, Michaela Paffenholz, Sebastian Seitz, Moritz Mendel, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

270/2021	A02	How Do Parents Perceive the Returns to Parenting Styles and Neighborhoods?	Lukas Kiessling

269/2021	C01	Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital	Katja M. Kaufmann, Matthias Messner, Alex Solis

268/2021	A01 B04	Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments	Jonas Radbruch, Amelie Schiprowski

267/2021	B04	When and Why Do Buyers Rate in Online Markets?	Xiang Hui, Tobias J. Klein, Konrad Stahl

266/2021	C01	The Hockey Stick Phillips Curve and the Zero Lower Bound	Gregor Boehl, Philipp Lieberknecht

265/2021	A02 C01	People Meet People - A Microlevel Approach to Predicting the Effect of Policies on the Spread of COVID-19	Janos Gabler, Tobias Raabe, Klara Röhrl

264/2021	A03	Unemployment Insurance Reforms in a Search Model With Endogenous Labor Force Participation	Johannes Goensch, Andreas Gulyas, Ioannis Kospentaris

263/2021	A02	Does Re-Opening Schools Contribute to the Spread of Sars-Cov-2? Evidence From Staggered Summer Breaks in Germany	Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert, Nico Pestel

262/2021	A02	Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19	Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel

261/2021	C03 C04	Unequal and Unstable: Income Inequality and Bank Risk	Yuliyan Mitkov, Ulrich Schüwer

260/2021	B06	Capital (Mis)allocation and Incentive Misalignment	Alexander Schramm, Alexander Schwemmer, Jan Schymik

259/2021	B05	Market Definition in the Platform Economy First version: January 2021	Jens-Uwe Franck, Martin Peitz

258/2021	C01	Stock Market Beliefs and Portfolio Choice in the General Population	Christian Zimpelmann

257/2021	C04	High-Frequency Trading and Price Informativeness	Jasmin Gider, Simon N. M. Schmickler, Christian Westheide

256/2021	B02	Optimal Delegation and Information Transmission Under Limited Awareness	Sarah Auster, Nicola Pavoni

255/2021	C01	The Effect of Increasing Retirement Age on Households’ Savings and Consumption Expenditures	Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer, Han Ye

254/2021	B02	Sequential Trading With Coarse Contingencies	Sarah Auster, Jeremy Kettering, Asen Kochov

253/2021	C01	Efficient Solution and Computation of Models With Occasionally Binding Constraints	Gregor Boehl

252/2020	B02	Limited Awareness and Financial Intermediation	Sarah Auster, Nicola Pavoni

251/2020	B01	The Multiple-Volunteers Principle	Susanne Goldlücke, Thomas Tröger

250/2020	B07	Carbon Footprints of European Manufacturing Jobs: Stylized Facts and Implications for Climate Policy	U.J. Wagner, D. Kassem, A. Gerster, J. Jaraite-Kazukauske, M. Klemetsen, M. Laukkanen, J. Leisner, R. Martin, J.R. Munch, M. Muûls, A.T. Nielsen, L. de Preux, K.E. Rosendahl, S. Schusser

249/2020	B07	The Effect of Climate Policy on Productivity and Cost Pass-Through in the German Manufacturing Sector	Beat Hintermann, Maja Žarković, Corrado Di Maria, Ulrich J. Wagner

248/2020	C03	Divided We Fall: International Health and Trade Coordination During a Pandemic	Viral Acharya, Zhengyang Jiang, Robert J. Richmond, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

247/2020	B03	The Welfare Effects of Early Termination Fees in the US Wireless Industry	Joseph Cullen, Nicolas Schutz, Oleksandr Shcherbakov

246/2020	B04	Information Exchange and Consumer Search	Anton Sobolev

245/2020	A03	Consumer Credit With Over-Optimistic Borrowers	Florian Exler, Igor Livshits, James MacGee, Michèle Tertilt

244/2020	A04	Nonparametric Estimation of Truncated Conditional Expectation Functions	Tomasz Olma

243/2020	B06	Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes	Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Rosario Crinò, Harald Fadinger, Gino Gancia

242/2020	A01	Competition Between Friends and Foes	Wladislaw Mill, John Morgan

241/2020	B07	Urban Air Pollution and Sick Leaves: Evidence From Social Security Data	Felix Holub, Laura Hospido, Ulrich J. Wagner

240/2020	C02	Monetary Policy Challenges From Falling Natural Interest Rates	Klaus Adam

239/2020	C02	Covid-19 Supply Chain Disruptions	Matthias Meier, Eugenio Pinto

238/2020	A01	The Cost of a Divided America: An Experimental Study Into Destructive Behavior	Wladislaw Mill, John Morgan

237/2020	A04 B07	Gender Gaps and the Role of Bosses	Moritz Drechsel-Grau, Felix Holub

236/2020	B03 B06	Gravity With Granularity	Holger Breinich, Harald Fadinger, Volker Nocke, Nicolas Schutz

235/2020	C02	Falling Natural Rates, Rising Housing Volatility and the Optimal Inflation Target	Klaus Adam, Oliver Pfäuti, Timo Reinelt

234/2020	A03	Aggregate and Intergenerational Implications of School Closures: A Quantitative Assessment	Youngsoo Jang, Minchul Yum

233/2020	C01	Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation	Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, Arthur Seibold

232/2020	B07	Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change? Firm-Level Evidence From the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme	Jonathan Colmer, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner

231/2020	C01	Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes: Evidence From Single-Sex Schools in the UK	Lina Cardona, Katja M. Kaufmann

230/2020	B02	Persuading an Informed Committee	Nina Bobkova, Saskia Klein

229/2020	B01	Optimal Testing and Social Distancing of Individuals With Private Health Signals	Thomas Tröger

228/2020	B03	Mechanism Design for Unequal Societies	Marco Reuter, Carl-Christian Groh

227/2020	B04	Allocation With Correlated Information: Too Good to Be True	Deniz Kattwinkel

226/2020	C01	Reference Points for Retirement Behavior: Evidence from German Pension Discontinuities	Arthur Seibold

225/2020	B04	Imitation Perfection - a Simple Rule to Prevent Discrimination in Procurement First version: October 2020	Nicolas Fugger, Vitali Gretschko, Helene Mass, Achim Wambach

224/2020	C01	Monetary Policy and Speculative Asset Markets	Gregor Boehl

223/2020	A01 B03	Motivated Information Acquisition First version: October 2020	Si Chen, Carl Heese

222/2020	B03	Social Learning With State-Dependent Observations	Carl Heese

221/2020	B03	Inducing Effort Through Grades	David Rodina, John Farragut

220/2020	B03	Information Design and Career Concerns	David Rodina

219/2020	B04	Dynamic Competition for Attention	Jan Knoepfle

218/2020	B02	Does Open Source Pay off in the Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Industry? A Study of Tesla's Open-Source Initiative	Yihan Yan

217/2020	A01	How People Know Their Risk Preference	Ruben C. Arslan, Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig, Gert G. Wagner

216/2020	C02	The Effects of Trend Inflation on Aggregate Dynamics and Monetary Stabilization	Andrey Alexandrov

215/2020	A02	The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education	Laura Ehrmantraut, Pia Pinger, Renske Stans

214/2020	B01	Optimal Voting Mechanisms on Generalized Single-Peaked Domains	Tobias Rachidi

213/2020	C01	Parental Investment and Peer Effects in Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills	Yasemin Özdemir

212/2020	A03	The Consequences of the COVID-19 Job Losses: Who Will Suffer Most and by How Much?	Andreas Gulyas, Krzysztof Pytka

211/2020	C01	Labour Supply During Lockdown and a “New Normal”: The Case of the Netherlands	Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Bettina Siflinger, Christian Zimpelmann

210/2020	B05	Preparing for the Next Crisis: How to Secure the Supply of Essential Goods and Services	Natalia Fabra, Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz

209/2020	B03	Voter Attention and Distributive Politics	Carl Heese

208/2020	B05	Removal of Potential Competitors – A Blind Spot of Merger Policy?	Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz

207/2020	C01	The Fall of the Aspirations Wall: Educational Aspirations, Achievement and Societal Change	Ghazala Azmat, Katja M. Kaufmann

206/2020	A02	A Setback Set Right? Unfortunate Timing of Family Distress and Educational Outcomes	Renske Stans

205/2020	A02	Environmental Incentives and Parental Investments	Renske Stans

204/2020	B05	The Tension between Market Shares and Profit under Platform Competition	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz, Eric Toulemonde

203/2020	B01	Committee Search: Evaluating One or Multiple Candidates at a Time?	Christina Luxen, Tobias Rachidi

202/2020	B05	What Is ‘Competition Law’? – Measuring EU Member States’ Leeway to Regulate Platform-to-Business Agreements	Jens-Uwe Franck, Nils Stock

201/2020	B02 B05	The Economics of Decoupling	Andre Speit, Paul Voss

200/2020	B02 B05	Shareholder Votes on Sale	Andre Speit, Paul Voss

199/2020	B01	Polls and Elections: Strategic Respondents and Turnout Implications	Christina Luxen

198/2020	A03	This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession	Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt

197/2020	A03	Nonlinear Occupations and Female Labor Supply Over Time	Youngsoo Jang, Minchul Yum

196/2020	B02	The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs	Bernhard Ganglmair, Christian Helmers, Brian J. Love

195/2020	B06	Spatial Effects of Price Regulations and Competition. A Dynamic Approach to the German Retail Pharmacy Market	Jan-Robert Aue

194/2020	A03 C01	Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria First version: July 2020	Andreas Gulyas, Sebastian Seitz, Sourav Sinha

193/2020	C01	A Structural Investigation of Quantitative Easing	Gregor Boehl, Gavin Goy, Felix Strobel

192/2020	C01	US Business Cycle Dynamics at the Zero Lower Bound	Gregor Boehl, Felix Strobel

191/2020	C03	Debt Maturity and Innovation	Yuliyan Mitkov

190/2020	B03	Concentration Screens for Horizontal Mergers	Volker Nocke, Michael D. Whinston

189/2020	B06	Skill-Biased Imports, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Allocation of Talent	Lei Li

188/2020	B05	Network Goods, Price Discrimination, and Two-sided Platforms	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

187/2020	A03	The Economic Motives for Foot-binding	Xinyu Fan, Lingwei Wu

186/2020	A01 A02	Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence	Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger

185/2020	A02	Safety at Work and Immigration	Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Nicolau Martin Bassols, Judit Vall Castello

184/2020	B05	Which Role for State Aid and Merger Control During and After the Covid Crisis?	Chiara Fumagalli, Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz

183/2020	A03	The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures	Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Moritz Kuhn, Michèle Tertilt

182/2020	B07	Disaggregate Consumption Feedback and Energy Conservation	Andreas Gerster, Mark A. Andor, Lorenz Götte

181/2020	A03	Firm Dynamics with Labor Market Sorting	Andreas Gulyas

180/2020	B02	Strategic Information Transmission and Efficient Corporate Control	Paul Voß, Marius Kulms

179/2020	B05	State Aid Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Shock: Observations and Guiding Principles	Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz

178/2020	B06	My Home is My Castle - The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis: Evidence from Germany	Jean-Victor Alipour, Harald Fadinger, Jan Schymik

177/2020	C01	The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women	Han Ye

176/2020	A03	Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry	Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ernesto Villanueva

175/2020	A03	An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Young and Old Agents: Behavior, Testing and Policies First version: May 2020	Luiz Brotherhood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, Michèle Tertilt

174/2020	B02	"No Man is an Island": An Empirical Study on Team Formation and Performance	Alessandra Allocca

173/2020	B05	Germany’s ‘Lex Apple Pay’: Payment Services Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement First version: May 2020	Jens-Uwe Franck, Dimitrios Linardatos

172/2020	A01	Self-Assessment: The Role of the Social Environment	Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Florian Zimmermann

171/2020	C03	A Simple, Non-Recursive Model of the Spread of Covid-19 with Applications to Policy	Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

170/2020	A01 B07	Experimental Evidence on Misguided Learning	Lorenz Götte, Marta Kozakiewicz

169/2020	A03	The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption	Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette, Eliana Viviano

168/2020	B06	Income Differences, Productivity and Input-Output Networks	Harald Fadinger, Christian Ghiglino, Mariya Teteryatnikova

167/2020	B06	The Effects of Working from Home on Covid-19 Infections and Production A Macroeconomic Analysis for Germany	Harald Fadinger, Jan Schymik

166/2020	C04	Collective Intelligence: Crowd Wisdom versus Herding	Andreas Engert

165/2020	B04	The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences	Amelie Schiprowski

164/2020	B04	Benefit Duration, Job Search Behavior and Re-Employment First version: March 2020	Andreas Lichter, Amelie Schiprowski

163/2020	A03	The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality	Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt

162/2020	C03 C04	The Role of Social Networks in Bank Lending First version: March 2020	Oliver Rehbein, Simon Rother

161/2020	C02	Monetary Policy, Markup Dispersion, and Aggregate TFP	Matthias Meier, Timo Reinelt

160/2020	C02	Supply Chain Disruptions, Time to Build, and the Business Cycle	Matthias Meier

159/2020	A04 C02	Falling Behind: Has Rising Inequality Fueled the American Debt Boom? First version: March 2020	Moritz Drechsel-Grau, Fabian Greimel

158/2020	B01	Optimal Auctions with Signaling Bidders	Olivier Bos, Martin Pollrich

157/2020	B04	Strategies under Strategic Uncertainty	Helene Mass

156/2020	B01	Contest with Incomplete Information: When to Turn Up the Heat, and How?	Mengxi Zhang

155/2020	B03	Do People Value More Informative News?	Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth

154/2020	C02	Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Housing	Klaus Adam, Michael Woodford

153/2020	A03	Consumer Debt and Default: A Macro Perspective First version: February 2020	Florian Exler, Michèle Tertilt

152/2020	A02	Who Benefits From General Knowledge? First version: February 2020	Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Emma Duchini

151/2020	B02	Optimal Pricing, Private Information and Search for an Outside Offer First version: April 2020	Sarah Auster, Nenad Kos, Salvatore Piccolo

150/2020	B05	Student Performance and Loss Aversion	Heiko Karle, Dirk Engelmann, Martin Peitz

149/2020	B07	Complementarities in Behavioral Interventions: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Energy Conservation	Ximeng Fang, Lorenz Goette, Bettina Rockenbach, Matthias Sutter, Verena Tiefenbeck, Samuel Schoeb, Thorsten Staake

148/2020	A01	Associative Memory and Belief Formation	Benjamin Enke, Frederik Schwerter, Florian Zimmermann

147/2020	B05	Big Tech Mergers First version: January 2020	Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz

146/2020	B04	Robust Bidding and Revenue in Descending Price Auctions	Sarah Auster, Christian Kellner

145/2020	B04	Hidden Testing and Selective Disclosure of Evidence	Claudia Herresthal

144/2020	C02	Estimating the Optimal Inflation Target from Trends in Relative Prices	Klaus Adam, Henning Weber

143/2020	C03	Pricing for the Stars Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Rating Systems First version: January 2020	André Stenzel, Christoph Wolf, Peter Schmidt

142/2020	A03 C02	The Emergence of Procyclical Fertility: The Role of Gender Differences in Employment Risk First version: January 2020	Sena Coskun, Husnu C. Dalgic

141/2020	B06	Human Capitalists, Reallocation and the Global Division of Labor First version: January 2020	Jan Schymik

140/2019	B05	Ad Clutter, Time Use, and Media Diversity First version: December 2019	Simon P. Anderson, Martin Peitz

139/2019	A02	Will You Marry Me, Later? Age-of-Marriage Laws and Child Marriage in Mexico First version: December 2019	Cristina Bellés-Obrero, María Lombardi

138/2019	C03	Can You Trust the Blockchain? The (limited) Power of Peer-to-Peer Networks for Information Provision	Benedikt Franke, Qi Gao, André Stenzel

137/2019	B05	The Competitive Impacts of Exclusivity and Price Transparency in Markets with Digital Platforms	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

136/2019	B04 B05	Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with an Uncertain Number of Competitors	Stephan Lauermann, Andre Speit

135/2019	B04	Overcoming Free-Riding in Bandit Games First version: November 2019	Johannes Hörner, Nicolas Klein, Sven Rady

134/2019	A03	Young, Educated, Unemployed First version: November 2019	Sena Coskun

133/2019	B02	Bargaining and Delay in Thin Markets	Francesc Dilmé

132/2019	B02	Relational Contracts: Public versus Private Savings	Francesc Dilmé, Daniel Garrett

131/2019	A03	Understanding the Sources of Earnings Losses After Job Displacement: A Machine-Learning Approach First version: October 2019	Andreas Gulyas, Krzysztof Pytka

130/2019	B04	Undiscounted Bandit Games First version: October 2019	Godfrey Keller, Sven Rady

129/2019	C01	Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality	Michael J. Böhm, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Felix Schran

128/2019	B03 B04	Persuasion and Information Aggregation in Large Elections	Carl Heese, Stephan Lauermann

127/2019	B03	Blurred Boundaries: A Flexible Approach for Segmentation Applied to the Car Market	Laura Grigolon

126/2019	A02	Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru	Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Mará Lombardi

125/2019	B04	Information Aggregation in Poisson-Elections	Mehmet Ekmekci, Stephan Lauermann

124/2019	B04	Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design	Ian Ball, Deniz Kattwinkel

123/2019	A03	A Structural Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and Sickness Absence	Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff

122/2019	B06	Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and U.S. Published in Proceedings of the ECB Forum on Central Banking, 17‐19 June 2019, Sintra, Portugal: 152-183, 2019	Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen, Harald Fadinger

121/2019	A01 A02	Self-Selection of Peers and Performance	Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube

120/2019	B01 B04	The Balance Condition in Search-and-Matching Models	Stephan Lauermann, Georg Nöldeke, Thomas Tröger

119/2019	B02	Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws	Bernhard Ganglmair, Imke Reimers

118/2019	A03	Adjusting to Globalization in Germany	Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Suedekum

117/2019	C04	Shareholder Activism in Germany	Andreas Engert

116/2019	B01	On Selecting the Right Agent	Geoffroy de Clippel, Kfir Eliaz, Daniel Fershtman, Kareen Rozen

115/2019	A03	Untying the Knot: How Child Support and Alimony Affect Couples’ Decisions and Welfare First version: August 2019	Hanno Foerster

114/2019	B04	Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	Deniz Kattwinkel, Jan Knoepfle

113/2019	B02	Habits as Adaptations: An Experimental Study	Ludmila Matysková, Brian Rogers, Jakub Steiner, Keh-Kuan Sun

112/2019	A03	Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development? Published in Journal of Economic Growth, 24: 309-343, 2019	Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

111/2019	A01 A02	Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences	Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Thomas Deckers

110/2019	A03	Employer Screening and Optimal Unemployment Insurance	Mario Meier, Tim Obermeier

109/2019	A03	The Marriage Market, Inequality and the Progressivity of the Income Tax	Tim Obermeier

108/2019	C03	The Deposit Base - Multibanking and Bank Stability	Hendrik Hakenes, Eva Schliephake

107/2019	A02	Mothers’ Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments	Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Antonio Cabrales, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Judit Vall-Castello

106/2019	B06	Capital Adjustment Cost: Implications for Domestic and Export Sales Dynamics	Yanping Liu

105/2019	C02	Stock Price Cycles and Business Cycles	Klaus Adam, Sebastian Merkel

104/2019	B01	Efficient Sequential Screening	Boaz Zik

103/2019	A02	Unintended Health Costs of Gender Equalization First version: July 2019	Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Judit Vall Castello

102/2019	A03	Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behaviour of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants	Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

101/2019	B05	Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms with Competitive Sellers	Heiko Karle, Martin Peitz Markus Reisinger

100/2019	A01	Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment	Arjan Non, Ingrid Rohde, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen

099/2019	B05	Price Disclosure by Two-sided Platforms Published in International Journal of Industrial Organization, 67: 2019	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

098/2019	B05	Optimal Non-Linear Pricing Scheme when Consumers are Habit Forming First version: June 2019	Eleftheria Triviza

097/2019	A01	(Not) Everyone Can Be a Winner – The Role of Payoff Interdependence for Redistribution	Sebastian Schaube, Louis Strang

096/2019	A01	Motivated by Others’ Preferences? An Experiment on Imperfect Empathy	Jana Hofmeier, Thomas Neuber

095/2019	C04	Asset Price Bubbles and Systemic Risk	Markus Brunnermeier, Simon Rother, Isabel Schnabel

094/2019	B06	The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis	Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Yanping Liu

093/2019	B01	Fake Experts	Patrick Lahr, Justus Winkelmann

092/2019	A02	Determinants of Peer Selection	Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube

091/2019	C03	Allocating Losses: Bail-Ins, Bailouts and Bank Regulation First version: May 2019	Todd Keister, Yuliyan Mitkov

090/2019	C03	Inequality and Financial Fragility	Yuliyan Mitkov

089/2019	B05	Media See-saws: Winners and Losers in Platform Markets First version: May 2019	Simon P. Anderson, Martin Peitz

088/2019	A04	Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Interaction Models Using Benchmark Industry Characteristics	Antonio Ciccone, Elias Papaioannou

087/2019	B04	Local Search Markets and External Competition	Patrick Legros, Konrad Stahl

086/2019	A04	The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach, Comment Published in American Economic Review, 109(3): 1555-1174, 2019	Francesco Caselli, Antonio Ciccone

085/2019	A03	Heterogeneity, Transfer Progressivity and Business Cycles First version: April 2019	Youngsoo Jang, Takeki Sunakawa, Minchul Yum

084/2019	B03	Anticompetitive Vertical Merger Waves	Johan Hombert, Jerome Pouyet, Nicolas Schutz

083/2019	B02	Revenue Management without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Flash Sales Published in Review of Economic Studies, 86(5): 1999-2034, 2019	Francesc Dilmé, Fei Li

082/2019	B06	Foreign Competition and the Durability of US Firm Investments	Philippe Fromenteau, Jan Schymik, Jan Tscheke

081/2019	B04	Trust, Investment and Competition: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers	Giacomo Calzolari, Leonardo Felli, Johannes Koenen, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Konrad Stahl

080/2019	B04	Informal Elections with Dispersed Information	Mehmet Ekmekci, Stephan Lauermann

079/2019	C01	The Dynamics of Households’ Stock Market Beliefs	Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Axel Wogrollly

078/2019	B02	Pre-Trade Private Investments Published in Games and Economic Behavior, 117: 89-119, 2019	Francesc Dilmé

077/2019	B05	Challenges for EU Merger Control	Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz

076/2019	B05	Ratings, Reviews, Recommendations and the Consumption of Cultural Goods	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

075/2019	C02	Do Plants Freeze upon Uncertainty Shocks?	Ariel Mecikovsky, Matthias Meier

074/2019	B05	Rethinking Liability Rules for Online Hosting Platforms	Miriam Buiten, Alexandre de Streel, Martin Peitz

073/2019	A01	The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs	Florian Zimmermann

072/2019	A01	Determinants of Trust: The Role of Personal Experiences	Frederik Schwerter, Florian Zimmermann

071/2019	A01	Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality Published in Science, 362(6412): 2018	Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle

070/2019	A01	Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning	Roland Bénabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

069/2019	A02	Risky Lifestyle Choices of Women With Breast Cancer First version: February 2019	Chloé Michel, Michelle Sovinsky, Steven Stern

068/2019	A03	An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic Published in Econometrica, 87(4): 1081-1113, 2019	Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, Michèle Tertilt

067/2019	A03	Taxing Families: The Impact of Child-related Transfers on Maternal Labor Supply First version: January 2019	Anne Hannusch

066/2019	B04	Manipulated Electorates and Information Aggregation	Mehmet Ekmekci, Stephan Lauermann

065/2018	C03	Opacity, Liquidity and Disclosure Policies	André Stenzel, Wolf Wagner

064/2018	C03	Incentive-Compatibility, Limited Liability and Costly Liquidation in Financial Contracting Published in Games and Economic Behavior, 118: 412-433, 2019	Zhengqing Gui, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, Xiaojian Zhao

063/2018	B04	A Common-Value Auction with State-Dependent Participation First version: December 2018	Stephan Lauermann, Asher Wolinsky

062/2018	B02	Cheap Trade Credit and Competition in Downstream Markets	Mariassunta Giannetti, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Emanuele Tarantino

061/2018	C03	Model-based Evaluation of Cooling-Off Policies First version: December 2018	Christian Michel, André Stenzel

060/2018	B05	Distorted Input Ratios in Vertical Relationships	Martin Peitz, Dongsoo Shin

059/2018	A03	General Equilibrium Feedback Regarding the Employment Effects of Labor Taxes	Minchul Yum

058/2018	A02	Forensic Econometrics: Demand Estimation when Data are Missing Published in Japanese Economic Review, 70(3): 403-410, 2019	Julian Hidalgo, Michelle Sovinsky

057/2018	B02	Patent Pools, Vertical Integration, and Downstream Competition Published in RAND Journal of Economics, 50(1): 168-200, 2019	Markus Reisinger, Emanuele Tarantino

056/2018	B02	The Effect of Horizontal Mergers, When Firms Compete in Prices and Investments	Massimo Motta, Emanuele Tarantino

055/2018	B01 B04	Steady States in Search-and-Matching Models	Stephan Lauermann, Georg Nöldeke, Thomas Tröger

054/2018	B01	Auctions vs. Negotiations: Optimal Selling Mechanism with Endogenous Bidder Values	Mengxi Zhang

053/2018	B07	Heterogeneous Impacts of Cost Shocks, Strategic Bidding and Pass-Through: Evidence from the New England Electricity Market	Harim Kim

052/2018	B07	Does Electrification Cause Industrial Development? Grid Expansion and Firm Turnover in Indonesia Second version: July 2019 First version: November 2018	Dana Kassem

051/2018	C02	Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: An Insurance Arrangement	Husnu C. Dalgic

050/2018	C01	Learning Spillovers in Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil	Fernanda Brollo, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Eliana La Ferrara

049/2018	B06	Trade and Domestic Policies in Models with Monopolistic Competition	Alessia Campolmi, Harald Fadinger, Chiara Forlati

048/2018	A03	Parental Time Investment and Intergenerational Mobility	Minchul Yum

047/2018	B04	Price Dispersion and Informational Frictions: Evidence from Supermarket Purchases	Pierre Dubois, Helena Perrone

046/2018	C03	Creditor Rights, Information Sharing, and Borrower Behavior: Theory and Evidence	John H. Boyd, Hendrik Hakenes, Amanda Heitz

045/2018	B02	Regulating Cancellation Rights with Consumer Experimentation	Florian Hoffmann, Roman Inderst, Sergey Turlo

044/2018	C04	Nowhere Else to Go: The Determinants of Bank-Firm Relationship Discontinuations after Bank Mergers First version: September 2018	Oliver Rehbein, Santiago Carbo-Valverde

043/2018	C04	Flooded through the Back Door: The Role of Capital in Local Shock Spillovers First version: September 2018	Oliver Rehbein, Steven Ongena

042/2018	B05	You Are Judged by the Company You Keep: Reputation Leverage in Vertically Related Markets Published in International Journal of Industrial Organization, 61: 351-379, 2018	Jay Pil Choi, Martin Peitz

041/2018	B02	Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development	Bernhard Ganglmair, Timothy Simcoe, Emanuele Tarantino

040/2018	B02	Expectations of Reciprocity and Feedback when Competitors Share Information: Experimental Evidence	Bernhard Ganglmair, Alex Holcomb, Noah Myung

039/2018	B03	Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade	Holger Breinlich, Volker Nocke, Nicolas Schutz

038/2018	B03	Internal versus External Growth in Industries with Scale Economies: A Computational Model of Optimal Merger Policy	Ben Mermelstein, Volker Nocke, Mark A. Satterthwaite, Michael D. Whinston

037/2018	B05	Striking a Balance of Power between the Court of Justice and the EU Legislature: The Law on Competition Damages Actions as a Paradigm Published in European Law Review, 43: 837-857, 2018	Jens-Uwe Franck

036/2018	C04	Banks' Trading after the Lehman Crisis - The Role of Unconventional Monetary Policy	Isabel Schnabel, Johannes Tischer

035/2018	B06	Trade in Tasks and the Organization of Firms Published in European Economic Review, 107: 99-132, 2018	Dalia Marin, Jan Schymik, Alexander Tarasov

034/2018	B01	Buyer-Optimal Robust Information Structures	Stefan Terstiege, Cédric Wasser

033/2018	B02	Skewed Information Transmission	Francesc Dilmé

032/2018	B01	A Nazi "Killer" Amendment	Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu

031/2018	B01	A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations	Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Philipp Strack

030/2018	B01	The Multiplier Effect in Two-Sided Markets with Bilateral Investments Published as "The Feedback Effect in Two‐Sided Markets with Bilateral Investments" in Journal of Economic Theory, 182: 106-142, 2019	Deniz Dizdar, Benny Moldovanu, Nora Szech

029/2018	B01	The Dimensions of Consensus	Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu, Xianwen Shi

028/2018	B05	Managing Competition on a Two-Sided Platform Published in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28: 5-22, 2019	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

027/2018	B05	A Fresh Look at Zero-Rating Published in Telecommunications Policy, 42(7): 501-513, 2018	Jan Krämer, Martin Peitz

026/2018	B01	Dynamic Expert Incentives: Complementarity and Substitutability in Information Acquisition	Tsz-Ning Wong, Lily Ling Yang

025/2018	B01	Relevant Decision Problems and Value of Information	Lily Ling Yang

024/2018	B03	An Aggregative Games Approach to Merger Analysis in Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly	Volker Nocke, Nicolas Schutz

023/2018	A01	Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism	Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt

022/2018	A01	Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes	Maria Zumbuehl, Thomas Dohmen, Gerard Pfann

021/2018	B05	Consumer Search with and without Tracking	Marcel Preuss

020/2018	B03	All-Pay Oligopolies: Price Competition with Unobservable Inventory Choices	Joao Montez, Nicolas Schutz

019/2018	B01	Sweet Lemons: Mitigating Collusion in Organizations First version: May 2018	Colin von Negenborn, Martin Pollrich

018/2018	B06	Offshoring and Skill-Upgrading in French Manufacturing Published in Journal of International Economics, 118: 138-159, 2019	Juan Carluccio, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Christian Fons-Rosen

017/2018	B06	Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation	Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen

016/2018	C02	Leaning against Housing Prices as Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy	Klaus Adam, Michael Woodford

015/2018	A02	Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices Published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 75: 66-75, 2018	Pia Pinger, Sebastian Schäfer, Heiner Schumacher

014/2018	B03	Deception and Competition in Search Markets	Tobias Gamp, Daniel Krähmer

013/2018	A01 A02	The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment	Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Armin Falk

012/2018	A01	Affirmative Action and Retaliation in Experimental Contests Published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 156: 23-40, 2018	Francesco Fallucchi, Simone Quercia

011/2018	B03	Full Surplus Extraction in Mechanism Design with Information Disclosure	Daniel Krähmer

010/2018	C02	Optimal Trend Inflation	Klaus Adam, Henning Weber

009/2018	B06	The Structure of Multinational Sales under Demand Risk	Francesco Paolo Conteduca, Ekaterina Kazakova

008/2018	B06	Serving Abroad: Export, M&A, and Greenfield Investment	Francesco Paolo Conteduca, Ekaterina Kazakova

007/2018	B05	Toward a Coherent Policy on Cartel Damages	Jens-Uwe Franck, Martin Peitz

006/2018	A01	On the Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preference Published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(2): 115-134, 2018	Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde

005/2018	A01	Global Evidence on Economic Preferences Published in Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(4): 1645-1692, 2018	Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde

004/2018	B05	Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms: Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations Published in J.J. Ganuza and G. Llobet (eds.), Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution, Funcas Social and Economic Studies, 5: 215-254, 2018	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

003/2018	B01	Assigning an Unpleasant Task without Payment	Susanne Goldlücke, Thomas Tröger

002/2018	B01	Linear Voting Rules Published in Econometrica, 87(6): 2037-2077, 2019	Hans Peter Grüner, Thomas Tröger

001/2018	B05	Platform Competition: Who Benefits from Multihoming? Published in International Journal of Industrial Organization, 64: 1-26, 2019	Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

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