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Forthcoming in the AER: "Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D" by Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, Joachim Winter, Amelie Wuppermann, and Bo Zhou. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Großartige News! Simon Martin hat den "CRESSE and CPI Award 2021" 🥇 für sein Paper "Market Transparency and Consumer Search - Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market" gewonnen🎉🍾 competitionpolicyinternational.com/cresse-cpi-awa…

Tomorrow, Florian Ederer (Yale University) will give a talk on "Common Ownership, #Competition, and Top Management Incentives" in our #ResearchSeminar. The seminar will take place from 16:15 to 17:15 via Webex. To join, please DM.

Hi #EconTwitter, I'm a behavioral and experimental economist Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, and I am on #econjobmarket this year. My #jmp is about willful ignorance and reference-dependence of self-image concerns. TLDR: Self-image is reference-dependent, information avoidance is prominent. 🧵1/N

Evidence on rising markups using detailed product level data: 25% increase between 2006 and 2019 Hendrik Dopper Alex MacKay Nathan Miller and Joel Stiebale

NEU🚨NEU🚨NEU Ausgabe 20 unseres #PolicyBriefs ist da! Mit Beiträgen von Florian Heiß, Alexandra Gibbon und W. Benedikt Schmal. Es geht um wechselträge Verbraucher, Common Ownership & DEAL. #Wettbewerb dice.hhu.de/fileadmin/reda…

MACCI 2022 -- featuring some of #econtwitter's best incl. Martin Peitz Volker Nocke José Azar Felix Montag Alexandra Gibbon Anna Tzanaki (who did I miss?) Also: TWO sessions on common ownership zew.de/fileadmin/FTP/…

Great article by Rachel Layne: http://layniac.bsky.social about our research on rising markups and the role of consumer preferences

Tomorrow, 4.15 p.m. in S3/S4, Igor Letina (Universität Bern) will give a talk on "#KillerAcquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies" in our #ResearchSeminar. Details 👉dice.hhu.de/konferenzen-un…

Shareholders cannot and do not set production targets for CEOs, they said. Shareholders don’t get in production decisions at all, they said.

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We had three great days in Milan at EEA. Now on the way to EARIE (by night train) with Kevin Remmy and Alexandra Gibbon #EEAESEM22 #EARIE22

Exciting presentations, fascinating results and a highly motivated DICE team at this year's #EARIE Conference

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Happy that the first chapter of my dissertation has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Industrial Organization!

How do humans interact with pricing algorithms within firms❓ We explore this question using two large-scale field experiments in collaboration with Zalando Technology in a new WP. This work is a collaboration with Tobias Huelden, Vitalijs Jascisens and Lars Roemheld. 🧵Thread below.

🚀I am excited to announce that I am on the Job Market this year! My JMP, "Destructive Communication" (with M. Andres), shows that when individuals are highly polarized, communication not only fails to promote trust but actively damages it. #EconTwitter #EconJM #JMP

Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019. One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.