The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers, the key personnel linking the lender to its borrowers, are affected in their performance and adapt their work to the pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian...

Der ifo Geschäftsklimaindex wird häufig als repräsentative Umfrage herangezogen, die u.a. den Digitalisierungsfortschritt deutscher Unternehmen erfasst. Die erhobenen Daten finden in Deutschland eine große mediale Aufmerksamkeit. Im Gegensatz dazu haben die Metadaten dieser Umfrage, die...

Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is understood regarding how incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a series of field experiments involving more than 5,000 participants, we investigate how incentives alter behavior in teams...

Multi-unit auctions are sometimes plagued by the so-called exposure problem. In this paper, we analyze a simple game called the chopstick auction in which bidders are confronted with the exposure problem. We analyze the chopstick auction with incomplete information both in theory and in a...

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...