DICE Discussion Papers

DICE Discussion Paper No 93

Status Concerns as a Motive for Crime?, April 2013.

Florian Baumann & Tim Friehe


DICE Discussion Paper No 92

Adverse Effects of Patent Pooling on Product Development and Commercialization, April 2013.

Thomas D. Jeitschko & Nanyun Zhang


DICE Discussion Paper No 91

Private Protection Against Crime when Property Value is Private Information, April 2013.

Florian Baumann & Tim Friehe

Published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 35 (2013), pp. 73 - 79.


DICE Discussion Paper No 90

Cheap Talk About the Detection Probability, April 2013.

Florian Baumann & Tim Friehe

Forthcoming in: International Game Theory Review.


DICE Discussion Paper No 89

How to Counter Union Power? Equilibrium Mergers in International Oligopoly, April 2013.

Beatrice Pagel & Christian Wey


DICE Discussion Paper No 88

Mergers, Managerial Incentives, and Efficiencies, April 2013.

Dragan Jovanovic


DICE Discussion Paper No 87

Bargaining Power and Local Heroes, March 2013.

Ulrich Heimeshoff & Gordon J. Klein


DICE Discussion Paper No 86

More Bits – More Bucks? Measuring the Impact of Broadband Internet on Firm Performance, February 2013.

Irene Bertschek, Daniel Cerquera & Gordon J. Klein

Forthcoming in: Information Economics and Policy.


DICE Discussion Paper No 85

Piracy in a Two-Sided Software Market, February 2013.

Alexander Rasch & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 88 (2013), pp. 78-89.


DICE Discussion Paper No 83

Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the Internet Driving Competition or Market Monopolization?, January 2013.

Justus Haucap & Ulrich Heimeshoff

Forthcoming in: International Economics and Economic Policy.


DICE Discussion Paper No 81

The Effects of Remedies on Merger Activity in Oligopoly, December 2012.

Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt & Christian Wey


DICE Discussion Paper No 80

Optimal Damages Multipliers in Oligopolistic Markets, December 2012.

Florian Baumann & Tim Friehe


DICE Discussion Paper No 79

Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment, December 2012.

Tomaso Duso, Lars-Hendrik Röller & Jo Seldeslachts

Forthcoming in: The Review of Economics and Statistics.


DICE Discussion Paper No 78

Innovation, Tort Law, and Competition, December 2012.

Florian Baumann & Klaus Heine

Forthcoming in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.


DICE Discussion Paper No 77

Investment Behavior in a Constrained Dictator Game, November 2012.

Michael Coenen & Dragan Jovanovic


DICE Discussion Paper No 75

Competition in Germany’s Minute Reserve Power Market: An Econometric Analysis, November 2012.

Justus Haucap, Ulrich Heimeshoff & Dragan Jovanovic


DICE Discussion Paper No 74

Do Buyer Groups Facilitate Collusion?, November 2012.

Hans-Theo Normann, Jürgen Rösch & Luis Manuel Schultz


DICE Discussion Paper No 73

Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Groups, November 2012.

Gerhard Riener & Simon Wiederhold


DICE Discussion Paper No 71

First Mover Advantages in Mobile Telecommunications: Evidence from OECD Countries, October 2012.

Johannes Muck & Ulrich Heimeshoff


DICE Discussion Paper No 70

Consumer Choice and Local Network Effects in Mobile Telecommunications in Turkey, October 2012.

Mehmet Karaçuka, A. Nazif Çatik & Justus Haucap

Published in: Telecommunications Policy, 57 (2013), pp. 334-344.


DICE Discussion Paper No 68

Motivational Cherry Picking, September 2012.

Tobias Regner & Gerhard Riener


DICE Discussion Paper No 67

Excess Capacity and Pricing in Bertrand- Edgeworth Markets: Experimental Evidence, September 2012.

Miguel A. Fonseca & Hans-Theo Normann

Forthcoming in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.


DICE Discussion Paper No 66

Team Building and Hidden Costs of Control, September 2012.

Gerhard Riener & Simon Wiederhold


DICE Discussion Paper No 65

Explicit vs. Tacit Collusion - The Impact of Communication in Oligopoly Experiments, August 2012.

Miguel A. Fonseca & Hans-Theo Normann

Published in: European Economic Review, 56 (2012), pp. 1759-1772.


DICE Discussion Paper No 64

An Equilibrium Analysis of Efficiency Gains from Mergers, July 2012.

Dragan Jovanovic & Christian Wey


DICE Discussion Paper No 63

Hospital Market Concentration and Discrimination of Patients, July 2012.

Ralf Dewenter, Thomas Jaschinski & Björn A. Kuchinke


DICE Discussion Paper No 62

The Strategic Use of Private Quality Standards in Food Supply Chains, May 2012.

Vanessa von Schlippenbach & Isabel Teichmann

Published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 94 (2012) , pp. 1189-1201.


DICE Discussion Paper No 61

Bargaining, Vertical Mergers and Entry, July 2012.

Geza Sapi


DICE Discussion Paper No 60

Targeted Pricing and Customer Data Sharing Among Rivals, July 2012.

Nicola Jentzsch, Geza Sapi & Irina Suleymanova

Published in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 31 (2013), pp. 131-144.


DICE Discussion Paper No 59

On the Norms of Charitable Giving in Islam: A Field Experiment, June 2012.

Fatima Lambarraa & Gerhard Riener


DICE Discussion Paper No 58

An Empirical Assessment of the 2004 EU Merger Policy Reform, June 2012.

Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler & Florian Szücs


DICE Discussion Paper No 57

More Ads, More Revs? Is there a Media Bias in the Likelihood to be Reviewed?, June 2012.

Ralf Dewenter & Ulrich Heimeshoff


DICE Discussion Paper No 56

Pull-Forward Effects in the German Car Scrappage Scheme: A Time Series Approach, June 2012.

Veit Böckers, Ulrich Heimeshoff & Andrea Müller


DICE Discussion Paper No 55

The Effect of Ambiguity Aversion on Reward Scheme Choice, June 2012.

Christian Kellner & Gerhard Riener


DICE Discussion Paper No 54

The Impact of Timing on Bidding Behavior in Procurement Auctions of Contracts with Private Costs, June 2012.

Dakshina G. De Silva, Georgia Kosmopoulou, Beatrice Pagel & Ronald Peeters

Published in: Review of Industrial Organization, 42 (2013), pp. 321-343.


DICE Discussion Paper No 53

Competition in the Workplace: An Experimental Investigation, May 2012.

Volker Benndorf & Holger A. Rau


DICE Discussion Paper No 52

How Regulation Affects Network and Service Quality in Related Markets, May 2012.

Justus Haucap & Gordon J. Klein

Published in: Economics Letters, 117 (2012), pp. 521-524.


DICE Discussion Paper No 50

The Extent of European Power Markets, April 2012.

Veit Böckers & Ulrich Heimeshoff


DICE Discussion Paper No 47

The Effects of Gasoline Price Regulations: Experimental Evidence, April 2012.

Justus Haucap & Hans Christian Müller


DICE Discussion Paper No 46

Roaming and Investments in the Mobile Internet Market, March 2012.

Torben Stühmeier

Published in: Telecommunications Policy, 36 (2012), pp. 595-607.


DICE Discussion Paper No 45

The Effects of Rebate Contracts on the Health Care System, March 2012.

Julia Graf

Forthcoming in: The European Journal of Health Economics.


DICE Discussion Paper No 44

Unionization Structures in International Oligopoly, February 2012.

Beatrice Pagel & Christian Wey

Published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 27 (2013),

pp. 1-17.


DICE Discussion Paper No 43

Price-Dependent Demand in Spatial Models, January 2012.

Yiquan Gu & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 12 (2012), Article 6.


DICE Discussion Paper No 41

Regulating Advertising in the Presence of Public Service Broadcasting, January 2012.

Torben Stühmeier & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Review of Network Economics, 11 (2012), Article 1.


DICE Discussion Paper No 39

Transparency, Entry, and Productivity, November 2011.

Yiquan Gu & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Economics Letters, 115 (2012), pp. 7-10.


DICE Discussion Paper No 38

Entry Deterrence Through Cooperative R&D Over-Investment, November 2011.

Clémence Christin

Forthcoming in: Louvain Economic Review.


DICE Discussion Paper No 37

In Vino Veritas: Theory and Evidence on Social Drinking, November 2011.

Justus Haucap, Annika Herr & Björn Frank


DICE Discussion Paper No 36

Irrationality Rings! – Experimental Evidence on Mobile Tariff Choices, November 2011.

Anne-Kathrin Barth & Julia Graf


DICE Discussion Paper No 35

Signaling in Deterministic and Stochastic Settings, November 2011.

Thomas D. Jeitschko & Hans-Theo Normann

Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 82 (2012), pp. 39-55.


DICE Discussion Paper No 34

The Role of Abatement Technologies for Allocating Free Allowances, October 2011.

Clémence Christin, Jean-Philippe Nicolai & Jerome Pouyet


DICE Discussion Paper No 33

Technology Adoption in Markets with Network Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence, October 2011.

Claudia Keser, Irina Suleymanova & Christian Wey

Published in: Information Economics and Policy, 24 (2012), pp. 262-276.


DICE Discussion Paper No 32

The Bank Lending Channel in Turkey: Has it Changed after the Low Inflation Regime?, September 2011.

A. Nazif Catik & Mehmet Karaçuka

Published in: Applied Economics Letters, 19 (2012), pp. 1237-1242.


DICE Discussion Paper No 31

Reestablishing Stability and Avoiding a Credit Crunch: Comparing Different Bad Bank Schemes, August 2011.

Achim Hauck, Ulrike Neyer & Thomas Vieten


DICE Discussion Paper No 30

Bertrand Competition in Markets with Network Effects and Switching Costs, August 2011.

Irina Suleymanova & Christian Wey

Published in: B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 11 (2011), Article 56.


DICE Discussion Paper No 29

Access Regulation with Asymmetric Termination Costs, July 2011.

Torben Stühmeier

Published in: Journal of Regulatory Economics, 43 (2013), pp. 60-89.


DICE Discussion Paper No 28

On File Sharing with Indirect Network Effects Between Concert Ticket Sales and Music Recordings, July 2011.

Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Journal of Media Economics, 25 (2012), pp. 168-178.


DICE Discussion Paper No 27

One-Stop Shopping Behavior, Buyer Power, and Upstream Merger Incentives, June 2011.

Vanessa von Schlippenbach & Christian Wey


DICE Discussion Paper No 26

Outside Board Memberships of CEOs: Expertise or Entrenchment?, June 2011.

Benjamin Balsmeier, Achim Buchwald & Heiko Peters


DICE Discussion Paper No 25

Using Rival Effects to Identify Synergies and Improve Merger Typologies, June 2011.

Joseph A. Clougherty & Tomaso Duso

Published in: Strategic Organization, 9 (2011), pp. 310-335.


DICE Discussion Paper No 24

Do Women Behave More Reciprocally than Men? Gender Differences in Real Effort Dictator Games, June 2011.

Matthias Heinz, Steffen Juranek & Holger A. Rau

Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83 (2012), pp. 105-110.


DICE Discussion Paper No 23

Technology Licensing by Advertising Supported Media Platforms: An Application to Internet Search Engines, June 2011.

Geza Sapi & Irina Suleymanova

Published in: B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 11 (2011), Article 37.


DICE Discussion Paper No 22

Competition Policy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Assessment, May 2011.

Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Giancarlo Spagnolo & Christiana Vitale

Forthcoming in: The Review of Economics and Statistics.


DICE Discussion Paper No 21

A Spatial Approach to Measure Productivity Spillovers of Foreign Affiliated Firms in Turkish Manufacturing Industries, May 2011.

Mehmet Karaçuka & A. Nazif Catik

Published in: The Journal of Developing Areas, 46 (2012), pp. 65-83.


DICE Discussion Paper No 20

A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Univariate Time Series Models in Forecasting Turkish Inflation, May 2011.

A. Nazif Catik & Mehmet Karaçuka

Published in: Journal of Business Economics and Management, 13 (2012), pp. 275-293.


DICE Discussion Paper No 19

The Impact of the Termination Rule on Cooperation in a Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment, May 2011.

Hans-Theo Normann & Brian Wallace

Published in: International Journal of Game Theory, 41 (2012), pp. 707-718.


DICE Discussion Paper No 18

Quality Distortions in Vertical Relations, April 2011.

Pio Baake & Vanessa von Schlippenbach

Published in: Journal of Economics, 103 (2011), pp. 149-169.


DICE Discussion Paper No 17

Economic Principles of State Aid Control, April 2011.

Justus Haucap & Ulrich Schwalbe

Forthcoming in: F. Montag & F.J. Säcker (eds.), European State Aid Law: Article by Article Commentary, Beck: München 2012.


DICE Discussion Paper No 16

Consumer Behavior towards On-net/Off-net Price Differentiation, January 2011.

Justus Haucap & Ulrich Heimeshoff

Published in: Telecommunications Policy, 35 (2011), pp. 325-332.


DICE Discussion Paper No 15

How Effective is European Merger Control?, January 2011.

Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler & Burcin B. Yurtoglu

Published in: European Economic Review, 55 (2011), pp. 980-1006.


DICE Discussion Paper No 14

The First shall be Last: Serial Position Effects in the Case Contestants evaluate Each Other, December 2010.

Stefan D. Haigner, Stefan Jenewein, Hans Christian Müller & Florian Wakolbinger

Published in: Economics Bulletin, 30 (2010), pp. 3170-3176.


DICE Discussion Paper No 13

On the Role of Consumer Expectations in Markets with Network Effects, November 2010.

Irina Suleymanova & Christian Wey

Published in: Journal of Economics, 105 (2012), pp. 101-127.


DICE Discussion Paper No 12

Competition in the Turkish Mobile Telecommunications Market: Price Elasticities and Network Substitution, November 2010.

Justus Haucap, Ulrich Heimeshoff & Mehmet Karaçuka

Published in: Telecommunications Policy, 35 (2011), pp. 202-210.


DICE Discussion Paper No 11

Semi-Collusion in Media Markets, November 2010.

Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 31 (2011), pp. 92-98.


DICE Discussion Paper No 10

Calling Party Pays or Receiving Party Pays? The Diffusion of Mobile Telephony with Endogenous Regulation, October 2010.

Ralf Dewenter & Jörn Kruse

Published in: Information Economics and Policy, 23 (2011), pp. 107-117.


DICE Discussion Paper No 8

Legal and Illegal Cartels in Germany between 1958 and 2004, September 2010.

Justus Haucap, Ulrich Heimeshoff & Luis Manuel Schultz

Published in: H. J. Ramser & M. Stadler (eds.), Marktmacht. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Volume 39, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2010, pp. 71-94.


DICE Discussion Paper No 7

Quality and Welfare in a Mixed Duopoly with Regulated Prices: The Case of a Public and a Private Hospital, September 2010.

Annika Herr

Published in: German Economic Review, 12 (2011), pp. 422-437.


DICE Discussion Paper No 6

A Within-Subject Analysis of Other-Regarding Preferences, September 2010.

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann & Hans-Theo Normann

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 72 (2011), pp. 321-338.


DICE Discussion Paper No 5

Vertical Mergers, Foreclosure and Raising Rivals’ Costs – Experimental Evidence, September 2010.

Hans-Theo Normann

Published in: The Journal of Industrial Economics, 59 (2011), pp. 506-527.


DICE Discussion Paper No 4

Transparency, Price-Dependent Demand and Product Variety, September 2010.

Yiquan Gu & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Economics Letters, 110 (2011), pp. 216-219.


DICE Discussion Paper No 3

Deregulation of Shopping Hours: The Impact on Independent Retailers and Chain Stores, September 2010.

Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113 (2011), pp. 145-166.


DICE Discussion Paper No 2

Getting Beer During Commercials: Adverse Effects of Ad-Avoidance, September 2010.

Torben Stühmeier & Tobias Wenzel

Published in: Information Economics and Policy, 23 (2011), pp. 98-106.


DICE Discussion Paper No 1

Countervailing Power and Dynamic Efficiency, September 2010.

Roman Inderst & Christian Wey

Published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 9 (2011), pp. 702–720.


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