Thema Märkte

Government Ownership and Competition: Evidence from the European Airline Industry following the COVID-19-Pandemic

This paper empirically analyses the impact of government ownership on competition. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent governmental equity interventions in the European airline industry provides for a particularly ideal setting to investigate this topic, and this for several reasons. First, airline markets and competition therein are well-defined and well-understood. Second, European countries...

How Shocks Affect Stock Market Participation

While there is a broad consensus in the literature that stock ownership is associated with individual characteristics, such as wealth, income, risk preferences, and financial literacy, less is known about the dynamics of stock market participation (SMP). Major fluctuations in SMP are oftentimes related to political events, economic shocks, and technological disruptions. We discuss the literature...

How Shocks Affect Stock Market Participation

While there is a broad consensus in the literature that stock ownership is associated with individual characteristics, such as wealth, income, risk preferences, and financial literacy, less is known about the dynamics of stock market participation (SMP). Major fluctuations in SMP are oftentimes related to political events, economic shocks, and technological disruptions. We discuss the literature...

8th BCCP Forum

Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Forum The Forum will bring together all BCCP fellows in law and economics who are engaged in the activities of the science campus. We will have the opportunity to learn about each other’s research during short presentations by the different partner institutions followed by open discussion. The objective of the meeting is to encourage...

Politik unter Zugzwang

Der Beitrag erschien in der Fuldaer Zeitung. Konstantin A. Kholodilin analysiert die Entwicklungen auf dem deutschen Wohungsmarkt und rechnet damit, dass Wohnraum angesichts einer weiter wachsenden Bevölkerung knapp bleibt. Nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt steigender Immobilienpreise zeichnet sich aktuell eine Trendwende ab. Verschiedene Kaufpreisindikatoren stagnieren schon seit dem zweiten Quartal ...

Neue Vierteljahrshefte 2 bis 4/2022 zum Thema Epochenbruch erschienen

Drei neue Vierteljahrshefte sind erschienen, jeweils zum Thema Epochenbruch. Die Herausgeber*innen sind: Andreas Pfingsten (Finance Center, Universität Münster), Dorothea Schäfer (DIW Berlin), Andreas Stephan (Linnaeus University) und Mitherausgeber*innen. Vierteljahresheft 2-2022 - Epochenbruch – Wiedergeburt der Inflation? analysiert die neue gesamtwirtschaftliche Situation, insbesondere aber ...

Verschlechterung der Finanzierungskonditionen könnten Preiskorrekturen folgen: Interview mit Konstantin A. Kholodilin

Sponsored Bids in Online Labor Markets

Advertising on e-commerce platforms, which enables third-party sellers to place their products as sponsored listings within organic results, is a widespread phenomenon, creating large revenues for online marketplaces. While economic theory suggests that advertising can serve as a signal for product quality, the empirical evidence is ambiguous. In this project, I collect data from a leading online...

The Emission Intensity Effect: Carbon Border Adjustments in the Presence of Heterogeneous Firms

In the absence of globally coordinated action to combat climate change, governments are concerned that ambitious carbon pricing could harm the competitiveness of emission-intensive industries. A prominent measure to prevent that manufacturing producers relocate to countries with laxer environmental regulation are carbon border adjustments often referred to as carbon tariffs. Several studies have...

The Distributuional Impact of Real-Time Pricing