Nachhaltigkeit rückt zunehmend in den Fokus der Wirtschaft und der Gesellschaft. Dies gilt insbesondere für Personenkraftwagen als Teil des Mobilitätssektors. Eine Möglichkeit, bestehende Fahrzeuge nachhaltig länger zu nutzen, ist, refabrizierte Ersatzteile zu verwenden. Bisher wird dies...

With more than 3 million new passenger cars sold every year, Germany’s automobile industry is a major player on the European car market, and one seen as an important arena for achieving climate protection targets. Using high-resolution car registration data from each state in Germany between...

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) distributes more than $60 billion to over 20 million low-income families annually. Nevertheless, an estimated one-fifth of eligible households do not claim it. We ran six pre-registered, large-scale field experiments to test whether “nudges” could increase...

This paper investigates the effect of Internet car referral services on dealer pricing of automobiles in California. Combining data from J.D. Power and Associates and Autobytel.com, a major online auto referral service, we compare online transaction prices to regular street' prices. We find that...

Digitalisierung, Elektromobilität, Fachkräftesicherung, Konzentrationsprozesse - das Kraftfahrzeuggewerbe mit seinen 440.000 Beschäftigten befindet sich in einem umfassenden und grundlegenden Wandel, der durch die Corona-Pandemie einen weiteren Schub bekommen hat. Wie wirken sich die...

There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers inestablished industries, for example, term life insurance and car retailing. However, current researchdoes not reveal much about how using the Internet lowers prices. This paper answers this questionfor...