We use the negotiations for large-scale open-access agreements between German research institutions and leading academic publishers to study how changes in the attractiveness of various journals affect the publication behavior of researchers in economics and adjacent fields. First, as German...

We use the negotiations for large-scale open-access agreements between German research institutions and leading academic publishers to study how changes in the attractiveness of various journals affect the publication behavior of researchers in economics and adjacent fields. First, as German...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic shock waves across the globe. Much research addresses direct health implications of an infection, but to date little is known about how this shapes lasting economic effects. This paper estimates the workplace productivity effects of COVID-19 by studying...

Sophisticated collusive compensation schemes such as assigning future market shares or direct transfers are frequently observed in detected cartels. We show formally why these schemes are useful for dampening deviation incentives when colluding firms are temporary asymmetric. The relative...

Usually, economic research on collusion looks at the firms and how they optimally behave. The complex situation in which involved agents of the firms find themselves tends to be overly simplified or overlooked. This exploratory paper looks through the lens of the `governance of the commons' to...

A major question in economics is how research and development efforts translate into practice. In this paper, I do the opposite. With the help of natural language machine-learning, I investigate how legislative amendments to competition law enter economic research. The introduction of the...

We use the negotiations for large-scale open-access agreements between German research institutions and leading academic publishers to study how changes in the attractiveness of various journals affect the publication behavior of researchers in economics and adjacent fields. First, as German...

Collusive practices of firms continue to be a major threat to competition and consumer welfare. It should be of utmost importance for academic research to provide the theoretical and empirical foundations to antitrust authorities and enable them to develop proper tools to encounter new collusive...

Governing the complex institution of a business cartel is a highly involved topic. Operating outside the legal sphere, the cartel firms simultaneously need to harmonize prices and quantities, avoid discovery by the authorities, but also ensure that no member cheats on the others. This...