Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Recent Submissions
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Overconfidence and Prejudice
(2025-06-18)We develop a model of multi-dimensional misspecified learning in which an overconfident agent learns about groups in society from observations of his and others' successes. We show that the average person sees his group ... -
The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement
(2024-03-13)We compare men and women who are displaced from similar jobs by applying an event study design combined with propensity score matching and reweighting to administrative data from Germany. After a mass layoff, women's ... -
Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments
(2024-04-10)Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms and organizations. This article studies how and why a candidate’s interview outcome depends on the other candidates interviewed by the same ... -
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers
(2024-03-18)Many consumers care about climate change and other externalities associated with their purchases. We analyze the behavior and market effects of such “socially responsible consumers” in three parts. First, we develop a ...
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