Research

Work in progress

• The Inflation Reduction Act: Short-Term Industry Dynamics and Local Impacts
• Attention in Procurement (with Miklós Koren, Sergey Lychagin, and Adam Szeidl)
• Causal Random Deforestation: A Global REDD+ Evaluation (with Lucas Konrad, Lukas Vashold, and Nikolas Kuschnig)
• Pass-through in High Inflationary Environments: A Structural Approach (with Klaus Gugler, Klara Kinnl, Lukas Pirnbacher, and Florian Szücs)

Peer-reviewed publications

• Gugler, K., Szücs, F., Wohak, U. (2024) Using Natural Language Processing to Delineate Digital Markets, Stanford Computational Antitrust. Link (PDF)

Under Review

• Big-tech M&A, Venture Capital and Innovation (with Klaus Gugler and Florian Szücs), Resubmitted at International Journal of Industrial Organization

  • We investigate the effects of large technology acquisitions on venture capital investment and innovation in relevant markets covering the universe of all Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft acquisitions. We find strong negative effects on venture capital investment but heterogeneous effects on innovation.
  • Latest version available here

• Evaluating Tampon Tax Reforms using Transaction Based Scanner Data (with Klara Kinnl), Under review at Journal of Economics Behaviour and Organization

  • A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the European Parliament’s FEMM committee workshop on 08/12/2022.

  • In this project we evaluate the causal impact of various tax reductions for mentrual hygiene products on prices as well as quantities purchased. We find close to full pass-through but muted effects on quantities purchased.

  • We find that the tax reduction translates into prices dynamically over a period of at least 12 months.