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  • Research Project

    Antibiotic Resistance: Socio-Economic Determinants and the Role of Information and Salience in Treatment Choice (ABRSEIST)

    Antibiotics have contributed to a tremendous increase in human well-being, saving many millions of lives. However, antibiotics become obsolete the more they are used as selection pressure promotes the development of resistant bacteria. The World Health Organization has proclaimed antibiotic resistance as a major global threat to public health. Today, 700,000 deaths per year are due to...

    Current Project| Firms and Markets
  • Diskussionspapiere 1835 / 2019

    The Effect of a Leniency Rule on Cartel Formation and Stability: Experiments with Open Communication

    Cartels can severely harm social welfare. Competition authorities introduced leniency rules to destabilize existing cartels and hinder the formation of new ones. Empirically, it is difficult to judge the success of these measures because functioning cartels are unobservable. Existing experimental studies confirm that a leniency rule indeed reduces cartelization. We extend these studies by having a ...

    2019| Maximilian Andres, Lisa Bruttel, Jana Friedrichsen
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance

    Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial incentives of the German public insurance schemes. The estimation uses data on male employees and an extended expectation-maximization ...

    In: Journal of Health Economics 65 (2019), S. 227-245 | Daniel Kemptner
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Net Neutrality and CDN Intermediation

    We analyze competition between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) where consumers demand heterogeneous content within two Quality-of-Service (QoS) regimes, Net Neutrality and Paid Prioritization, and show that paid prioritization increases the static efficiency compared to a neutral network. We also consider paid prioritization intermediated by Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). While the use of CDNs ...

    In: Information Economics and Policy 46 (2019), S. 55-67 | Pio Baake, Slobodan Sudaric
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Do Demographics Prevent Consumption Aggregates from Reflecting Micro-Level Preferences?

    Most simulated micro-founded macro models use solely consumer-demand aggregates in order to estimate preference parameters of a representative consumer, for use in policy evaluation. Focusing on dynamic models with time-separable preferences, we show that aggregation holds if, and only if, momentary utility functions fall in the Identical-Shape Harmonic Absolute-Risk Aversion (ISHARA) utility class, ...

    In: European Economic Review 111 (2019), S. 166-190 | Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt
  • Diskussionspapiere 1823 / 2019

    The Effect of Personalized Feedback on Small Enterprises’ Finances in Uganda

    This RCT examines the effect of a new style finance training during which participants are given personalized feedback on their financial business outcomes in addition to a “rules-of-thumb” training approach. We compare this to the effects of a “rules-of-thumb” training by itself and to a control group. Targeting about 500 small and micro entrepreneurs in Kampala, Uganda, we find that the personalized ...

    2019| Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff, Helke Seitz
  • DIW Roundup 130 / 2019

    Do Default Assignments Increase Savings of the Poor? Empirical Evidence

    Although households in developing and emerging countries are relatively poor, there is potential to save. For example, one study estimates that up to 8.1% of a poor household’s budget in such countries is spent on so-called temptation goods, like alcohol, tobacco, and festivals (Banerjee and Duflo, 2007). At the same time, many households are aware of the fact that they do not save enough. They name ...

    2019| Eva Haaser, Melanie Koch
  • Diskussionspapiere 1816 / 2019

    Income Redistribution, Consumer Credit, and Keeping up with the Riches

    In this study, we set up a DSGE model with upward looking consumption comparison and show that consumption externalities are an important driver of consumer credit dynamics. Our model economy is populated by two different household types. Investors, who hold the economy’s capital stock, own the firms and supply credit, and workers, who supply labor and demand credit to finance consumption. Furthermore, ...

    2019| Mathias Klein, Christopher Krause
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    How Consumers Trade Off Supply Security and Green Electricity: Evidence from Germany and Great Britain

    The expansion of renewable energies requires infrastructure investments to at least maintain the stability of electricity grids. Using survey data from residential consumers in Germany and Great Britain, we infer in pecuniary terms the extent to which people are prepared to reward the presence of renewable resources in electricity production and how they trade off this change in the fuel mix against ...

    In: Energy Economics 84 (2019), Suppl. 1, 104528 | Christine Merk, Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder
  • Externe Monographien

    All-Pay Competition with Captive Consumers

    We study a game in which two firms compete in quality to serve a market consisting of consumers with different initial consideration sets. If both firms invest below a certain quality threshold, they only compete for those consumers already aware of their existence. Above this threshold, a firm is visible to all and the highest quality attracts all consumers. In equilibrium, firms do not choose their ...

    Lancaster: Lancaster University Management School, 2019, 31 S.
    (Economics Working Paper Series ; 18)
    | Renaud Foucart, Jana Friedrichsen
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