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'Rust in peace': Why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?Oliver HoltemöllerThe Guardian, June 3, 2025
The workshop provided a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aimed at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners.
Using a laboratory experiment we examine how social comparisons affect behavior in a sequential search task. In a control treatment, subjects search in isolation while in two other treatments subjects get feedback on the search decisions and outcomes of a partner subject.
This paper studies the long-run effects of credit market disruptions on real firm outcomes and how these effects depend on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level.
The talk covers an experimental paper as well as a theory paper, both on economic situations where an agent's payoff depends on market interactions between other agents. In the experimental paper, we assess the ability of human agents to predict the quilibrium of such interactions.
Schlaue Fischer gesucht! Ein Mitmachspiel für Kinder zum Thema Überfischung. Das Anglerspiel ist ein beliebter Geschicklichkeitstest für die Kleinsten. Die etwas Größeren merken bald, dass der Teich schnell leer ist, wenn man sich nicht mit den anderen darauf einigt, dem Fischbestand etwas Zeit zum Erholen zu geben.
We use the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12 to estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate.
This paper analyzes the effect of financial constraints on firms’ corporate social responsibility. Exploiting heterogeneity in firms’ exposure to a monetary policy shock in the U.S., which reduced financial constraints for some firms, I find that firms increase their environmental responsibility.
