Mertens, Matthias; Müller, Steffen; Neuschäffer, Georg - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2025 - This version: January 2025
We present causal evidence on the rent-sharing elasticity of German manufacturing firms. We develop a new firm-level Bartik instrument for firm rents that combines the firms' predetermined energy input mix with national energy carrier price changes. Instrumental variable estimation yields a...