We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

We give an overview of the "German model" of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany outsources collective bargaining to the sectoral level,...

Auf der Basis von zwei empirischen Analysen im Kontext der Fußball-Bundesliga identifiziert Jan Dreisbach Faktoren, die zu einem erfolgreichen Management von Sponsoringengagements beitragen. In der ersten Studie werden anhand der Informationen aus 20 Experteninterviews mit unterschiedlichen...

Gegenüberstellung additiver und konventioneller Fertigungsverfahren -- Stand der Forschung zur wirtschaftlich-technischen Einordnung des industriellen 3D-Drucks -- Erfolgsspezifische Eigenschaften und systematische Entwicklung eines Erfahrungsmanagements -- Empirische Modellierung theoretischer...

We document a housing portfolio channel of quantitative easing (QE) transmission exploiting variation in German household data in a difference-in-differences setting around QE adoption in 2015. We find that QE encourages households with larger initial bond positions to rebalance more toward...

Prior to around 2011, there was a pronounced curvilinear relationship between age and wellbeing: poor mental health was hump-shaped with respect to age, whilst subjective well-being was U-shaped. We examine data from a European panel for France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called,...

This paper studies green investing in a quantitative asset pricing model with heterogeneous investors calibrated using high-quality, representative survey data of German households. We find substantial heterogeneity in green taste for both safe and risky green assets throughout the wealth...

We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...