Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers

The Discussion Paper Series features research papers by members of the Berlin School of Economics. Information on how to submit a paper for the series is available to all members in the internal section of the website of the Berlin School of Economics.

Discussion Paper No. 63

Spatial Policies and Heterogeneous Employment Responses

Fabian Bald, Marcel Henkel (2025)

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Discussion Paper No. 62

The Gender Gap in Gender-Blind University Admissions

Yi Han, Dorothea Kübler, Yiming Liu, Xinye Zheng, Yibo Zong (2025)

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Discussion Paper No. 61

The effect of tuition fees on university graduation

Marc Bachmeier, Jan Marcus (2025)

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Discussion Paper No. 60

Asymmetric Inflation Target Credibility

Winnie Coleman, Dieter Nautz (2025)

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Discussion Paper No. 59

Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development

Antonin Bergeaud, Max Deter, Maria Greve, Michael Wyrwich (2025)

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Discussion Paper No. 58

Monetary Policy, Property Prices and Rents: Evidence from Local Housing Markets

Martin Groiss, Nicolas Syrichas (2025)

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Discussion Paper No. 57

Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan H. W. Roth, Tobias Seidel (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 56

An Organizational Theory of Unionization

Anja Prummer, Francesco Squintani (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 55

E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?

Agata Galkiewicz, Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 54

Parental Leave and Discrimination in the Labor Market

Julia Schmieder, Doris Weichselbaumer, Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 53

Consumer Consent Regulation

Roland Strausz (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 52

Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills

Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 51

Overconfidence and the Political and Financial Behavior of a Representative Sample

Ciril Bosch-Rosa, Bernhard Kassner, Steffen Ahrens (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 50

Income Effects of Disability Benefits

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 49

Monetizing digital content with network effects: A mechanism-design approach

Vincent Meisner, Pascal Pillath (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 48

Direct Elicitation of Parametric Belief Distributions: An application to inflation expectations

Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez, Ciril Bosch-Rosa, Thomas Meissner (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 47

The Political Economics of Green Transitions: Optimal Intertemporal Policy Response

Lorenz Dögnitz, Théo Konc, Linus Mattauch (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 46

Detecting excessive credit growth: An approach based on structural counterfactuals

Magnus Saß (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 45

Selling Certification of Private and Market Information

Gorkem Celik, Roland Strausz (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 44

Housing-consumption channel of mortgage demand

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Nikodem Szumilo, Jagdish Tripathy (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 43

Separate Housework Spheres

Jonas Jessen, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Felix Weinhardt, Jan Berkes (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 42

Strategic Use of Unfriendly Leadership and Labor Market Competition: An Experimental Analysis

Anastasia Danilov, Ju Yeong Hong, Anja Schöttner (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 41

Foreclosure and Profit Shifting with Partial Vertical Ownership

Matthias Hunold, Vasilisa Petrishcheva (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 40

De-industrialization, local joblessness and the male-female employment gap

Miriam Fritzsche (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 39

Narrative Persuasion

Kai Barron, Tilman Fries (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 38

Supporting carbon pricing when interest rates are higher

Franziska Funke, Linus Mattauch, Thomas Douenne, Adrien Fabre, Joseph E. Stiglitz (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 37

Bounded Rationality, Beliefs, and Behavior

Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 36

Misperceived Effectiveness and the Demand for Psychotherapy

Christopher Roth, Peter Schwardmann, Egon Tripodi (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 35

Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment

Kai Barron, Ruth K. Ditlmann, Stefan Gehrig, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 34

Better than Perceived? Correcting Misperceptions about Central Bank Inflation Forecasts

Muhammed Bulutay (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 33

The Political Economy of Stranded Assets: Climate Policies, Investments and the Role of Elections

Achim Hagen, Gilbert Kollenbach (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 32

Swiftness and Delay of Punishment

Libor Dušek, Christian Traxler (2024)

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Discussion Paper No. 31

Political salience and regime resilience

Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Steffen Huck, Macartan Humphreys (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 30

Principled Mechanism Design with Evidence

Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Roland Strausz (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 29

Why local governments set climate targets: Effects of city size and political costs

Klaus Eisenack (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 28

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse, Maximilian Schaller (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 27

Machine predictions and human decisions with variation in payoffs and skill: the case of antibiotic prescribing

Hannes Ullrich, Michael Allan Ribers (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 26

How not to Reduce Commission Rates of Real Estate Agents: Evidence From Germany

Julius Stoll (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 25

Working More for Less: Part-time Penalties Across the Working Hours Distribution?

Tom Günther, Ulrich C. Schneider, Fabian Stürmer-Heiber (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 24

Tests for Jumps in Yield Spreads

Lars Winkelmann, Wenying Yao (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 23

Fines, Non-Payment, and Revenues: Evidence from Speeding Tickets

Christian Traxler, Libor Dušek (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 22

International Attitudes Toward Global Policies

Adrien Fabre, Thomas Douenne, Linus Mattauch (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 21

How resilient is public support for carbon pricing? Longitudinal evidence from Germany

Stephan Sommer, Théo Konc, Stefan Drews (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 20

The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 19

Machine learning and physician prescribing: a path to reduced antibiotic use

Michael Allan Ribers, Hannes Ullrich (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 18

Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing: Evidence from physician exits

Shan Huang, Hannes Ullrich (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 17

The irrelevance of fee structures for certification

Martin Pollrich, Roland Strausz (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 16

Correlation-Savvy Sellers

Roland Strausz (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 15

Patience Is Power: Bargaining and Payoff Delay

Jeongbin Kim, Wooyoung Lim, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 14

Beliefs as a Means of Self-Control? Evidence from a Dynamic Student Survey

Felix Bönisch, Tobias König, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Georg Weizsäcker (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 13

Working Longer, Working Stronger? The Forward-Looking Effects of Increasing the Retirement Age on (Un)employment Behaviour

Niklas Gohl (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 12

Firm Heterogeneity and the Transmission of Central Bank Credit Policy

Konrad Kuhmann (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 11

Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles

Peter Haan, Adrián Santonja, Aleksandar Zaklan (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 10

Causal Misperceptions of the Part-Time Pay Gap

Annekatrin Schrenker (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 9

The effect of pension wealth on employment

Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan (2023)

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Discussion Paper No. 8

Urban pollution: A global perspective

Rainald Borck, Philipp Schrauth (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 7

Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms' Employment

Mathias Huebener, Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kuehnle, Michael Oberfichtner (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 6

Balance sheet smoothing

Tobias Witter, Thorsten Sellhorn, Jens Müller, Vicky Kiosse (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 5

Age-specific Effects of Early Daycare on Children’s Health

Mara Barschkett (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 4

Non-Additivity of Subjective Expectations over Different Time Intervals

Peter Haan, Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde, Georg Weizsäcker (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 3

Fickle Fossils. Economic Growth, Coal and the European Oil Invasion, 1900-2015

Miriam Fritzsche, Nikolaus Wolf (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 2

Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance

Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer, Vanessa Valero (2022)

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Discussion Paper No. 1

Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms

Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt (2022)

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