Till Stowasser
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Research interests

Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Organizational Economics, Political Economy.

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Leveraging the Motivational Effects of Labels: Lessons from Retrofitting (with D. Comerford, M. Moro and R. Sejas-Portillo), Behavioral Science & Policy, Vol. 7 (2), pp. 17–25, 2021 (Link)
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Price Discontinuities in an Online Market for Used Cars (with F. Englmaier and A. Schmöller). Management Science. Vol 64 (6), pp. 2754-2766, 2018. (Link)

Electoral Cycles in Savings-Bank Lending (with F. Englmaier). Journal of the European Economic Association. Vol. 15 (2), pp. 296–354.
2017. (Link)

​Resilience to Natural Disasters: Insurance Penetration, Institutions, and Disaster Types (with M. Breckner, F. Englmaier, and U. Sunde), Economics Letters. Vol. 148, pp. 106–110. 2016. (Link)

Understanding the SES Gradient in Health: The Role of Childhood Circumstances (with F. Heiss, D. McFadden, J. Winter). In D.A. Wise (ed.), Discoveries in the Economics of Aging. NBER & University of Chicago Press, pp. 187-219. 2014. (Link)

‘Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise?’ Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-Economic Status to Health (with F. Heiss, D. McFadden, J. Winter). In D.A. Wise (ed.), Investigations in the Economics of Aging. NBER & University of Chicago Press, pp. 267-317. 2012.  (Link 1 & Link 2)

Working papers

Limited attention in the housing market: Threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments (with R. Sejas-Portillo, D. Comerford and M. Moro) (R&R AEJ Applied) (Link)

Cooler Heads Prevail: The Effect of Weather on Pricing Residential Energy-Efficiency (with R. Sejas-Portillo and M. Moro)

Does Bidding for Complex Goods Reflect All Relevant Information? Field Evidence from Online Gaming (with F. Englmaier and A. Schmöller).

Determinants and Effects of Reserve Prices in Online Auctions (with F. Englmaier and A. Schmöller).

Work in progress

Human Capital, Job Search and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from Discontinuous Perceptions of Spell Durations (with L. Buchheim).

Wages and Reference Points (with F. Englmaier and F. Peterhammer).

Power Politics: Electoral Cycles in German Electricity Prices (with F. Englmaier, L. Hinreiner, and A. Roider).

Explaining Lending Cycles in German Savings-Bank Lending (with M. Köhler).

Behavioral Biases in Employment Relations: Evidence from Personnel Records.

On the Substitutability of Public Spending and Bank Lending: Explaining Menu Choices of Local Politicians (with Jonas Markgraf).

The SES Gradient in Health and the Roles of Affordability and Adherence: Evidence from HRS-linked Medicare Data.

Other publications (not peer-reviewed)

Savings Banks in Germany: Welfare versus Politics (with F. Englmaier). OUPblog, Oxford University Press. 2017.

Europe’s Biggest Online Market for Used Cars: Evidence from Germany of Price Discontinuities (with F. Englmaier and A. Schmöller). Media Briefing for the 2017 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference. 2017.

Electoral Cycles in German Public-Bank Lending (with F. Englmaier). International Banker Magazine. 2015.
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