When it comes to promoting the consumer welfare, competition law has a key role to play. Due to the conduct of some tech giants, consumer welfare has been negatively affected. Thus, this paper attempts to examine those practices that have a direct impact on customer welfare and the highlight the...

Widespread misconceptions can be critical, especially in times of crisis. Through a field experiment, we study how to address such wrong or inaccurate beliefs using messages delivered to individual citizens using mobile phones. We focus on misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a...

Im Rahmen der Wirtschaftsethik werden Annahmen und Modelle der Ökonomie durch eine anthropologische Perspektive ergänzt. In Anbetracht der aktuellen Finanzmarkt- und Euro- Krisen besteht ein enormer ethischer Anspruch an wirtschaftliches Handeln und die Folgen wirtschaftlichen Handelns. Ein...

The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election (i)...

The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. We present a randomized evaluation of the welfare effects of Facebook, focusing on US users in the run-up to the 2018 midterm...

Much debate exists around the impact that illegal file sharing may have on the creative industries. Similarly, opinions differ regarding whether the producers of artistic works should be forced to accept any weakening of intellectual property rights resulting from illegal file sharing, or if...