Research
I am interested in industrial organization and political economy with a focus on media, platforms, and digital transformation.
Publications:
Competition for Attention on Information Platforms: The case of local news outlets
(with Tim Meyer, Carmelo Cennamo, and Tobias Kretschmer)
Accepted, Strategic Management Journal
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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets
(with Julian Freitag and Johannes Münster)
Information Economics and Policy (2021), Vol. 56, 100926. Link to Publication
Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content
(with Johannes Münster)
Journal of Media Economics (2021), Vol. 32:3-4, 99-130. Link to Publication
Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor: Field Experimental Evidence
(with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Johannes Münster)
Political Communication (2019), Vol. 36:3, 337-356. Link to Publication
Quantity restrictions on advertising, commercial media bias, and welfare
(with Johannes Münster)
Journal of Public Economics (2015), Vol. 131, 124-141. Link to Publication
(with Tim Meyer, Carmelo Cennamo, and Tobias Kretschmer)
Accepted, Strategic Management Journal
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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets
(with Julian Freitag and Johannes Münster)
Information Economics and Policy (2021), Vol. 56, 100926. Link to Publication
Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content
(with Johannes Münster)
Journal of Media Economics (2021), Vol. 32:3-4, 99-130. Link to Publication
Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor: Field Experimental Evidence
(with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Johannes Münster)
Political Communication (2019), Vol. 36:3, 337-356. Link to Publication
Quantity restrictions on advertising, commercial media bias, and welfare
(with Johannes Münster)
Journal of Public Economics (2015), Vol. 131, 124-141. Link to Publication
Peer-reviewed conference papers:
Challenging Negative Gender Stereotypes: A Study on the Effectiveness of Automated Counter-Stereotypes
(with Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, and Isar Nejadgholi)
Accepted at: Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), Torino, May, 2024. Download
What Makes a Good Counter-Stereotype? Evaluating Strategies for Automated Responses to Stereotypical Text
(with Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, and Isar Nejadgholi)
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon), Toronto, July 2023. Download
(with Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, and Isar Nejadgholi)
Accepted at: Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), Torino, May, 2024. Download
What Makes a Good Counter-Stereotype? Evaluating Strategies for Automated Responses to Stereotypical Text
(with Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, and Isar Nejadgholi)
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon), Toronto, July 2023. Download
Working papers:
Advertising and Content Differentiation: Evidence from YouTube
(Reinhard-Selten-Preis 2019, Best Paper Award at the 3rd Doctoral Workshop on the Economics of Digitization 2019,
Nominated for the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award, Area Economis of Digitization, 2021)
Conditionally Accepted, The Economic Journal
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Debunking "fake news" on social media: short- and long-term effects of fact checking and media literacy interventions
(with Lara Marie Berger, Felix Mindl, and Johannes Münster)
R&R, Journal of Public Economics
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Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias
(with Johannes Münster)
R&R, Games
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Platform Partnership Programs and Content Supply: Evidence from the YouTube "Adpocalypse"
(with Lena Abou El-Komboz and Johannes Loh)
R&R, Information Systems Research
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Attitudes to Migration and the Market for News
(with Razi Farukh, Matthias Heinz, and Heiner Schumacher)
Submitted
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Gender stereotypes in user-generated content
(with Valentin Reich)
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Inefficiency and Regulation in Credence Goods Markets with Altruistic Experts
(with Razi Farukh and Jonas Loebbing)
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(Reinhard-Selten-Preis 2019, Best Paper Award at the 3rd Doctoral Workshop on the Economics of Digitization 2019,
Nominated for the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award, Area Economis of Digitization, 2021)
Conditionally Accepted, The Economic Journal
Download
Debunking "fake news" on social media: short- and long-term effects of fact checking and media literacy interventions
(with Lara Marie Berger, Felix Mindl, and Johannes Münster)
R&R, Journal of Public Economics
Download
Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias
(with Johannes Münster)
R&R, Games
Download
Platform Partnership Programs and Content Supply: Evidence from the YouTube "Adpocalypse"
(with Lena Abou El-Komboz and Johannes Loh)
R&R, Information Systems Research
Download
Attitudes to Migration and the Market for News
(with Razi Farukh, Matthias Heinz, and Heiner Schumacher)
Submitted
Download
Gender stereotypes in user-generated content
(with Valentin Reich)
Download
Inefficiency and Regulation in Credence Goods Markets with Altruistic Experts
(with Razi Farukh and Jonas Loebbing)
Download
Work in progress:
Fact checking and trust in information sources
(with Johannes Münster and Frederik Schwerter)
[Data collection completed]
Gender counter-stereotypes on social media: Experimental evidence
(with Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, and Isar Nejadgholi)
[Conceptualizing]
Information Limiting Environments
(with Sven Laumer, Kian Schmalenbach, and Sebastian Schötteler)
[Conceptualizing]
Populism and party positions: Evidence from Twitter
(with Nikola Noske and Johannes Renz)
[Data collection completed]
Statistical literacy in the news room: Experimental evidence
(with Lara Marie Berger and Nikola Noske)
[Conceptualizing]
Social Media Literacy, Mood, and Body Image
(with Michael Achmann, Steliyana Doseva, Milena Engelke, Yuchen Mo Guo, Jan Schillmöller, and Kian Schmalenbach)
[Conceptualizing]
(with Johannes Münster and Frederik Schwerter)
[Data collection completed]
Gender counter-stereotypes on social media: Experimental evidence
(with Kathleen Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, and Isar Nejadgholi)
[Conceptualizing]
Information Limiting Environments
(with Sven Laumer, Kian Schmalenbach, and Sebastian Schötteler)
[Conceptualizing]
Populism and party positions: Evidence from Twitter
(with Nikola Noske and Johannes Renz)
[Data collection completed]
Statistical literacy in the news room: Experimental evidence
(with Lara Marie Berger and Nikola Noske)
[Conceptualizing]
Social Media Literacy, Mood, and Body Image
(with Michael Achmann, Steliyana Doseva, Milena Engelke, Yuchen Mo Guo, Jan Schillmöller, and Kian Schmalenbach)
[Conceptualizing]