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20068: Evaluating the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic

Christian Alemán, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

20067: Demographic change and regional labour markets

Michael Böhm, Terry Gregory, Pamela Qendrai and Christian Siegel

20066: Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education

Maximilian Bach and Mira Fischer

20065: Champions of digital transformation? The dynamic capabilities of hidden champions

Daniel Wittenstein

20064: Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Tommy Krieger

20063: On the determinants and effects of corporate tax transparency: Review of an emerging literature

Raphael Müller, Christoph Spengel and Heiko Vay

20062: The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment: Two sides of the same coin?

Sebastian Camarero Garcia and Michelle Hansch

20061: Exporting costs and multi-product shipments

David Gomtsyan and Alexander Tarasov

20060: Klimapolitik zwischen Markt, Deliberation und Hegemonie: Der Emissionshandel und das Politische

Marc Frick and Vera Huwe

20059: Breaking borders? The European Court of Justice and internal market

Christoph Spengel, Leonie Fischer and Kathrin Stutzenberger

20058: Short-term impacts of carbon offsetting on emissions trading schemes: Empirical insights from the EU experience

Claire Gavard and Djamel Kirat

20057: Incumbency and expectations of fiscal rule compliance: Evidence from surveys of German policy makers

Friedrich Heinemann, Eckhard Janeba and Maximilian Todtenhaupt

20056: Money also is sunny in a retiree's world

Svenja Lorenz and Thomas Zwick

20055: From participants to citizens? Democratic voting rights and naturalization behavior

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer and Pieter Bevelander

20054: Cost-efficient transition to clean energy transportation services

Stephen Comello, Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

20053: Birth cohort size variation and the estimation of class size effects

Maximilian Bach and Stephan Sievert

20052: Complementary bidding and the collusive arrangement: Evidence from an antitrust investigation

Robert Clark, Decio Coviello and Adriano de Leverano

20051: Internal digitalization and tax-efficient decision making

Daniel Klein, Christopher Ludwig and Katharina Nicolay

20050: The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Matthias Krapf, Anja Roth and Michaela Slotwinski

20049: Transitions from lower track secondary schools into vocational training: Does a detour pay off?

Annette Hillerich-Sigg

20048: Are there rebound effects from electric vehicle adoption? Evidence from German household data

Vera Huwe and Johannes Gessner

20047: How do taxes affect the trading behavior of private investors? Evidence from individual portfolio data

Florian Buhlmann, Philipp Doerrenberg, Johannes Voget and Benjamin Loos

20046: Intangible capital indicators based on web scraping of social media

Patrick Breithaupt, Reinhold Kesler, Thomas Niebel and Christian Rammer

20045: The long-term distributional and welfare effects of Covid-19 school closures

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig and Irina Popova

20044: The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families

Ludovica Gambaro, Guido Neidhöfer and Christa Katharina Spieß

20043: The big sell: Privatizing East Germany's economy

Moritz Hennicke, Moritz Lubczyk and Lukas Mergele

20042: When the minimum wage really bites hard: Impact on top earners and skill supply

Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

20041: Klimapolitik während der Corona-Pandemie: Ergebnisse einer Haushaltserhebung

Manuel Frondel, Gerhard Kussel, Tobias Larysch and Daniel Osberghaus

20040: Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence: First evidence from Germany

Nicole Gürtzgen and Karolin Hiesinger

20039: When nudges fail to scale: Field experimental evidence from goal setting on mobile phones

Andreas Löschel, Matthias Rodemeier and Madeline Werthschulte

20038: The impact of carbon disclosure mandates on emissions and financial operating performance

Benedikt Downar, Jürgen Ernstberger, Stefan Reichelstein, Sebastian Schwenen and Aleksandar Zaklan

20037: The effect of patent litigation insurance: Theory and evidence from NPEs

Bernhard Ganglmair, Christian Helmers and Brian J. Love

20036: Capital incentive policies in the age of cloud computing: An empirical case study

Raphaela Andres, Timothy DeStefano, Thomas Niebel and Steffen Viete

20035: Economic policy for digital attention intermediaries

Martin Peitz

20034: The effectiveness of school closures and other pre-lockdown COVID-19 mitigation strategies in Argentina, Italy, and South Korea

Guido Neidhöfer and Claudio Neidhöfer

20033: Unemployment benefit duration and startup success

Sebastian Camarero Garcia and Martin Murmann

20032: What happens when separate and unequal school districts merge?

Robert Aue, Thilo Klein and Josue Ortega

20031: Trade liberalization and SO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from China's WTO entry

Lei Li, Andreas Löschel, Jiansuo Pei, Bodo Sturm and Anqi Yu

20030: A global decline in research productivity? Evidence from China and Germany

Philipp Böing and Paul Hünermund

20029: Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M&A inventive output

M. F. Arroyabe, Katrin Hussinger and John Hagedoorn

20028: Austerity and distributional policy

Matteo Alpino, Zareh Asatryan, Sebastian Blesse and Nils Wehrhöfer

20027: The incidence of VAT evasion

Zareh Asatryan and David Gomtsyan

20026: Beyond monetary barriers to electric vehicle adoption: Evidence from observed usage of private and shared cars

Wolfgang Habla, Vera Huwe and Martin Kesternich

20025: Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction: Register data based evidence from France and Germany

Cäcilia Lipowski, Ralf Wilke and Bertrand Koebel

20024: Long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 - 1870): From male scarcity to intimate partner violence

Barbara Boggiano

20023: Social capital and the spread of Covid-19: Insights from European countries

Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Michaela Slotwinski, Nils Wehrhöfer and Sebastian Siegloch

20022: Higher-order income risk over the business cycle

Christopher Busch and Alexander Ludwig

20021: Measuring organisation capital at the firm level: A production function approach

Christian Rammer, Felix Roth and Markus Trunschke

20020: The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets

Maria Arvaniti and Wolfgang Habla

20019: The welfare effects of persuasion and taxation: Theory and evidence from the field

Matthias Rodemeier and Andreas Löschel

20018: R&D investment under financing constraints

Marek Giebel and Kornelius Kraft

20017: On event studies and distributed-lags in two-way fixed effects models: Identification, equivalence, and generalization

Kurt Schmidheiny and Sebastian Siegloch

20016: Fiscal and individual rates of return to university education with and without graduation

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Holger Stichnoth

20015: The ratchet effect in social dilemmas

Carlo Gallier and Bodo Sturm

20014: A small volume reduction that melts down the market: Auctions with endogenous rationing

Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Ann-Katrin Hanke and Marion Ott

20013: The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany: A machine learning approach

Paolo Brunori and Guido Neidhöfer

20012: The value of publicly available, textual and non-textual information for startup performance prediction

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan M. Kuhn

20011: Climate policies under dynamic international economic cycles: A heterogeneous countries DSGE model

Bowen Xiao, Xiaodan Guo, Ying Fan, Sebastian Voigt and Lianbiao Cui

20010: Which design works? A meta-regression analysis of the impacts of R&D tax incentives

Florence Blandinieres, Daniela Steinbrenner and Bernd Weiß

20009: Labor shortage and innovation

Jens Horbach and Christian Rammer

20008: Energy use patterns in German manufacturing since 2003

Kathrine von Graevenitz and Elisa Rottner

20007: Beware of the employer: Financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment

Svenja Lorenz, Mona Pfister and Thomas Zwick

20006: The Italian startup act: A microeconometric program evaluation

Francesco Biancalani, Dirk Czarnitzki and Massimo Riccaboni

20005: Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms

Adelheid Holl, Bettina Peters and Christian Rammer

20004: Langfristige Wirkungen eines nicht abgeschlossenen Studiums auf individuelle Arbeitsmarktergebnisse und die allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit

Julia Heigle and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

20003: The digital layer: How innovative firms relate on the web

Miriam Krüger, Jan Kinne, David Lenz and Bernd Resch

20002: Mitigating the tradeoff between proportionality and accountability in electoral systems: Evidence from the Italian senate 1994-2006

Matteo Alpino

20001: Gender norms and income misreporting within households

Anja Roth and Michaela Slotwinski

19064: Competition and privacy in online markets: Evidence from the mobile app industry

Reinhold Kesler, Michael E. Kummer and Patrick Schulte

19063: Web-based innovation indicators: Which firm website characteristics relate to firm-level innovation activity?

Janna Axenbeck and Patrick Breithaupt

19062: Commitment in first-price auctions

Philippe Gillen

19061: How the auction design influences procurement prices: An experiment

Karl-Martin Ehrhart and Marion Ott

19060: Procurement design with loss averse bidders

Nicolas Fugger, Philippe Gillen and Tobias Riehm

19059: Strategic grade retention

Maximilian Bach

19058: Do people really want a simple tax system? Evidence on preferences towards income tax simplification

Sebastian Blesse, Florian Buhlmann and Philipp Doerrenberg

19057: Bureaucratic competence and procurement outcomes

Francesco Decarolis, Leonardo M. Giuffrida, Elisabetta Iossa, Vincenzo Mollisi and Giancarlo Spagnolo

19056: Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting

Josue Ortega and Erel Segal-Halevi

19055: Nudging for tax compliance: A meta-analysis

Armenak Antinyan and Zareh Asatryan

19054: Citizens' trade-offs in state merger decisions: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Sebastian Blesse and Friedrich Heinemann

19053: Collusion through market sharing agreements: Evidence from Quebec's road paving market

Adriano de Leverano

19052: Vote buying in the US Congress

Ulrich Matter, Paolo Roberti and Michaela Slotwinski

19051: Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia

Alexandra Avdeenko, Albrecht Bohne and Markus Frölich

19050: Ring-fencing digital corporations: Investor reaction to the European Commission's digital tax proposals

Daniel Klein, Christopher Ludwig and Christoph Spengel

19049: The long-term costs of government surveillance: Insights from stasi spying in East Germany

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler and Sebastian Siegloch

19048: Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?

Boris Ivanov, Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Laura Pohlan

19047: Bank mergers in the financial crisis: A competition policy perspective

Michael Hellwig and Falk Hendrik Laser

19046: The political economy of multilateral lending to European regions

Zareh Asatryan and Annika Havlik

19045: Schutz der Robo Advisor vor Marktbarrieren: Zugriffsrechte auf Banken-Schnittstellen?

Jens-Uwe Franck and Dimitrios Linardatos

19044: Firm acquisitions by family firms: A mixed gamble approach

Katrin Hussinger and Abdul-Basit Issah

19043: Markets for technology in Europe: Mapping demand and its drivers

Christoph Grimpe, Wolfgang Sofka, Philipp Schulz and Geoffrey Thilo Borchhardt

19042: Can European banks' country-by-country reports reveal profit shifting? An analysis of the information content of EU banks' disclosures

Verena Dutt, Katharina Nicolay, Heiko Vay and Johannes Voget

19041: The real effects of bank distress: Evidence from bank bailouts in Germany

Johannes Bersch, Hans Degryse, Thomas Kick and Ingrid Stein

19040: Incomplete contracts in dynamic procurement

Vitali Gretschko and Martin Pollrich

19039: Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Carlo Gallier, Timo Goeschl, Martin Kesternich, Johannes Lohse, Christiane Reif and Daniel Römer

19038: Effects of R&D subsidies on regional economic dynamics: Evidence from Chinese provinces

Jonathan Eberle and Philipp Böing

19037: Tax law and the transfer of start-up losses: A European overview and categorization

Anna Bührle and Christoph Spengel

19036: A deprivation-based assessment of energy poverty: Conceptual problems and application to Germany

Peter Heindl and Rudolf Schüßler

19035: Visibility of technology and cumulative innovation: Evidence from trade secrets laws

Bernhard Ganglmair and Imke Reimers

19034: Restrictions of fixed term employment contracts: Evidence from a German reform

Eduard Brüll

19033: Environmental innovation and firm profitability: An analysis with respect to firm size

Janna Axenbeck