economics

The Chair for Competition Policy has an explicit empirical orientation and offers courses in the area of theoretical and applied competition policy and applied labour economics, dealing with various aspects of welfare such as market power, measurement and substantive issues in income inequality, life satisfaction, education and health.

• Gu, Yiquan and B. Hehenkamp (2011) ''Too much of a good thing - The consequences of market transparency'', mimeo.
• Matthias Giesecke and Michael Kind (2011) ''Bridge Unemployment in Germany: Response in Labour Supply to an Increased Statutory Retirement Age'', mimeo.
• Michaelsen, Maren M.  (2011) ''The Effect of Mental Health on Labour Supply at a Time of Armed Conflict in Mexico'', mimeo.
• Keibrink, Jan and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2011) ''Dead Man Walking ? The Impact of Over-Education on Life Satisfaction'', mimeo.
• Michaelsen, Maren M. and Songül Tolan (2011) ''Children still at Risk: The Effect of Crop Loss on Child Health in Rural Mexico'', mimeo.
• Kleibrink, Jan and Maren M. Michaelsen (2011) ''Who's in the passing lane? Polytechnic and University Graduates' Labour Market Outcomes in Germany and the UK'', mimeo.
• Michael Kind and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2011) ''Short and Long Term Second-Degree Scarring'', mimeo.
• Michaelsen, Maren M.  (2011) ''The Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change'', Ruhr Economic Paper No. 262, Rhein-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen.
• Michaelsen, Maren M.  and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2011) ''Migration Magnet: The Role of Work Experience in Rural-urban Wage Differentials in Mexico'', Ruhr Economic Paper No. 263, Rhein-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen.
• Michael Kind and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2010) ''Unexpected Victims- How Parents? Unemployment Affect their Children?s Life Satisfaction'', mimeo.
• Kassenboehmer, Sonja C. and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2008) "Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany", RWI Essen, mimeo.
• Kassenboehmer, Sonja C. and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2008) "Heresy or Enlightenment? The Wellbeing Age U-Shape is Really Flat!", RWI Essen, mimeo.
• Haisken-DeNew, John and Matthias Vorell (2008) "Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey", Ruhr Economic Papers #47, Essen.
• DiTella, Rafael, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Robert MacCulloch (2007) "Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel", NBER Working Paper 13159
• Haisken-DeNew, John P. and Mathias Sinning (2007) "Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany", Ruhr Economic Papers, 31, submitted
• Frijters, Paul, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael A. Shields (2006) "Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Mode", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, revise and resubmit
• Haisken-DeNew, John P. and Markus Hahn (2006) "PanelWhiz: A Flexible Modularized Stata Interface for Accessing Large Scale Panel Data Sets", http.//www.panelwhiz.eu, mimeo.
• Haisken-DeNew, John P. and Joachim Frick, Eds. (2005) "Desktop Companion to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)", German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin

• Hehenkamp, B. and O. M. Kaarbøe (2011) ''Paying for performance in hospitals'', Economic Analysis and Policy, 41: 49-70.
• Hehenkamp, B. and A. Wambach (2010) ''Survival at the center ? The stability of minimum differentiation'', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76: 853-858.
• Hehenkamp, B. and A. Possajennikov with T. Guse (2010) ''On the equivalence of Nash and evolutionary equilibrium in finite populations'', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 73: 254-258.
• Hehenkamp, B., J. Angerhausen, and C. Bayer (2010) ''Strategic unemployment'', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 166(3): 439-461.
• Frijters, Paul, Harry Greenwell, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael A. Shields (2009) "How well do Individuals predict their Future Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Panel Data Following a Nationwide National Shock?", Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
• Kassenboehmer, Sonja C. and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2009) "You?re fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction", Economic Journal 199(536): 448-462.
• Frijters, Paul, Ingo Geishecker, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael A. Shields (2006) "Income and Life Satisfaction in Post-Transition Russia: A New Empirical Methodology for Panel Data", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 108(3), 433-458.
• Brück, Tilman, John P. Haisken-DeNew, Klaus F. Zimmermann (2006) "Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work", Applied Economics, 38(8), 899-911.
• Frijters, Paul, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael A. Shields (2005) "Estimating the causal effect of income and health: Evidence from post-reunification East Germany", Journal of Health Economics, 24, 997-1017.
• Bauer, Thomas K. Patrick Dross and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2005) "Sheepskin Effects in Japan", International Journal of Manpower, 26(4), 320-335.
• Frijters, Paul, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael A. Shields (2004) "Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Incomes and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification", American Economic Review, 94(3), 730-740.
• Frijters , Paul, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael A. Shields (2004) "Investigating the Patterns and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Germany Following Reunification", Journal of Human Resources, 39(3), 649-674
• Geishecker, Ingo and John P. Haisken-DeNew, (2004) "Landing on all Fours? Communist Elites in Post Soviet Russia", Journal of Comparative Economics, 32(4), 700-719.
• Haisken-DeNew, John P. (2001) "Data Surveys: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the World's Household Panel Data Sets", Australian Economic Review, 34(3), September, 356-66.
• Bauer, Thomas K. and John P. Haisken-DeNew (2001) "Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling", Labour Economics 8, 161-180.
• Haisken-DeNew, John P. and Christoph M. Schmidt (1997) "Inter-Industry and Inter-Region Differentials: Mechanics and Interpretation", The Review of Economics and Statistics, 79, 3, August, 516-521.
• DeNew, John P. and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1994) "Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labor: A Random Effects Panel Analysis", Journal of Population Economics, 7, 177-192.
• DeNew, John P. and Christoph M. Schmidt (1994) "The Industrial Structure of German Earnings 1980-1990", Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, 78, 141-159.