Platforms often display their products ahead of third-party products in search. Is this due to consumers preferring platform-owned products or platforms engaging in self-preferencing by biasing search towards their own products? What are the welfare implications? I develop a structural model of...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made all the more clear that public health is a public good. Public health interventions try to encourage contributions to this public good. Digital public health interventions are increasingly being used to complement traditional public health interventions. The...

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...

The COVID-19 pandemic increased pressure on the relationship between governments and the public, making cooperation between both actors more critical than ever. Surprisingly, there is significant variation in public compliance with health policies, especially regarding vaccine uptake across...

Auf den Daten einer systematischen Literaturrecherche und des Forschungsverbundprojekts "Beatmungspflege@Zuhause (Bea@Home)" als qualitative Fallstudie basierend, untersuchen wir die Auswirkungen von derzeitig erkennbaren sowie zukünftig möglichen Governancestrukturen und -mechanismen auf...

Auf den Daten einer systematischen Literaturrecherche und des Forschungsverbundprojekts "Beatmungspflege@Zuhause (Bea@Home)" als qualitative Fallstudie basierend, untersuchen wir die Auswirkungen von derzeitig erkennbaren sowie zukünftig möglichen Governancestrukturen und -mechanismen auf...

Auf den Daten einer systematischen Literaturrecherche und des Forschungsverbundprojekts "Beatmungspflege@Zuhause (Bea@Home)" als qualitative Fallstudie basierend, untersuchen wir die Auswirkungen von derzeitig erkennbaren sowie zukünftig möglichen Governancestrukturen und -mechanismen auf...

The empirical and theoretical literature on long-term relationships in public finance is dominated by two approaches: Fiscal sustainability and Wagner’s law of an increasing state activity. In this paper, we argue that these two relationships should be analyzed simultaneously and not...

We study the impact of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy on the low-frequency relationship between the fiscal stance and inflation using crosscountry data from 1965 to 1999. In a first step, we contrast the monetary-fiscal narrative for Germany, the U.S. and Italy with evidence...