We study binary action network games with strategic complementarities. An agent acts if the aggregate social influence of her friends exceeds a transfer levied on the agent by a principal. The principal seeks to maximize her revenue while inducing everyone to act in a unique equilibrium. We...

Recent studies use names - first and surnames - to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission processes, it remains unclear how different estimators compare and how reliable they are. This paper...

The rental building sector is plagued by the so-called landlord-tenant-dilemma, i.e. that landlords have no direct financial benefit from modernizations for energy efficiency if the tenant pays the energy bill while tenants have no incentives to save energy if the landlord pays. The primary...