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Our areas of interest
The members of the Public Economics group work on research questions in the fields of applied microeconomics and public economics. Please click on one of the topics below for selected publications by members of the group.
Law and economics
"Law Enforcement in a Federal System: On the Strategic Choice of Sanction Levels" - Tim Friehe & Thomas J. Miceli, Journal of Legal Studies, 2016. (doi: 10.1086/684309)
"Product Safety and Harm Mitigation Incentives When Mitigation Lowers Consumption Benefits" - Florian Baumann & Tim Friehe, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2021. (doi: 10.1093/jleo/ewaa011)
"Incentives to Diffuse Advanced Abatement Technology Under Environmental Liability Law" - Alfred Endres & Tim Friehe, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2011. (doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2010.12.001)
"Liability for Third-Party Harm When Harm-Inflicting Consumers Are Present Biased" - Tim Friehe, Christoph Rößler & Xiaoge Dong. American Law and Economics Review, 2020. (doi: 10.1093/aler/ahz013)
"Product Liability When Consumers Are Salient Thinkers" - Tim Friehe & Cat Lam Pham. Economics Letters, 2020. (doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108844)Behavioral economics
"On the Path Dependence of Tax Compliance" - Lisa Bruttel & Tim Friehe, European Economic Review, 2014. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.11.002)
"Time Preferences an Political Regimes: Evidence from Reunified Germany"- Tim Friehe & Markus Panneberg. Journal of Population Economics, 2020. (doi: 10.1007/s00148-019-00728-7)
"Conspicuous Consumption and Political Regimes: Evidence from East and West Germany" - Tim Friehe & Mario Mechtel, European Economic Review, 2014. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.01.005)
"Do Norms Make Preferences Social? Supporting Evidence from the Field" - Christoph Rößler, Hannes Rusch & Tim Friehe. Economics Letters, 2019. (doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108569)Other topics in applied microeconomics
"A Comparison of Simple Action-Based and Outcome-Based Policies for Emergency-Like Situations" - Tim Friehe & Avraham Tabbach, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2018. (doi: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2017.09.002)
"The Role of Investment in Environmental Lobbying Contests" - Tim Friehe, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2013. (doi: 10.1007/s10640-013-9650-2)
"Media’s Role in the Making of a Democrat: Evidence from East Germany" - Tim Friehe, Helge Müller, Florian Neumeier, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020. (doi: 10.1007/s00148-019-00728-7)
Research output
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