Dieser Beitrag erschien am 7.1.2021 in der Fuldaer Zeitung. Ein neues Auto, eben noch eine Eck-Couch oder kurz vor dem Jahreswechsel noch einmal den Klempner das Bad auf Vordermann bringen lassen: Die Idee der kurzzeitig abgesenkten Mehrwertsteuer war es, mit Steuerrabatten für Kauflaune bei den privaten Haushalten zusorgen. Diese hatten in Corona-Zeiten all zuviel Geld auf die hohe Kante gelegt, ...
While in January 2012, Denmark increased the long-standing tax on sugary soft drinks, the tax was cut byhalf in July 2013 and then completely repealed in January 2014. In this study, we examine whetherincreases and cuts of the soft drink tax lead to similar over- or under-shifting to prices and to similardemand responses. We use longitudinal scanner data of 1,282 Danish households to estimate within-product ...
Weltweit steigt die Anzahl überschuldeter Privathaushalte. Die möglichen Gründe für diesen Anstieg sind nicht hinreichend erforscht. Der vorliegende Bericht verdeutlicht, dass überhöhte Einkommenserwartungen, die durch unsichere Einkommensverhältnisse befördert werden, zu überoptimistischen Konsumentscheidungen und verstärkter Kreditaufnahme führen können. In einer Umgebung ohne starke Regulierung, ...
This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: The tracking of online user behavior is considered essential for the construction of consumer profiles, which help platforms monetize their services. Prominent examples are advertising in online search or social media, but also online retailing in which matching...
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 ...
“Sin taxes” are high on the political agenda in the global fight against obesity. Ac- cording to theory, they are welfare improving if consumers with low self-control are at least as price responsive as consumers with high self-control, even in the absence of ex- ternalities. In this paper, we investigate if consumers with low and high self-control react differently to sin tax variation. For identification, ...