Research

WORKING PAPERS

Declining Business Dynamism in Europe: The Role of Shocks, Market Power, and Technology, with F. Biondi, S. Inferrera, and J. Miranda, March 2024
Identifying Rent-sharing Using Firmsʼ Energy Input Mix, with G. Neuschäffer and S. Müller, July 2023
Do Larger Firms Exert More Market Power? Markups and Markdowns along the Size Distribution, with B. Mottironi, September 2023
Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation, with M. Hälbig and S. Müller, April 2024.
The Diminishing Output Elasticity of Labor, with B. Schoefer, April 2024.
Labor Market Power and Innovation, with R. Bräuer and J. Deist, April 2024.
Ready, Set, Unify: The Unequal Race between Trabants and BMWs, with U. Akcigit, S. Ates, F. Kilic, and S. Müller, October 2023.
Labor Market Power and Migration in High- and Low-Skill Labor Markets, with M. Caselli, S. Schiavo, and L. Nesta, September 2023.
Who am I? Unveiling Identify: Germline Genetic Testing in Post-Stem-Cell Transplantation Patients, with M. Sadlo, J. S. Kühl, K. Metzeler, L. Zschenderlein, J. Edelmann, C. Lehmann, S. Thull, M. Karakaya, C. Velmans, T. Tumewu, M. Böhme, C. Klötzer, A. Weigert, M. Mertens, and J. Hentschel, October 2023.

PUBLISHED & FORTHCOMING

REFEREED JOURNALS

Bighelli, T., di Mauro, F., Melitz M., & Mertens, M. (2023). European Market Concentration and Aggregate Productivity. Journal of the European Economic Association 21(2), 455-483.
Mertens, M. (2023). Labor Market Power and Between-Firm Wage (In)Equality. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 91, 103005.
Bräuer, R., Mertens, M., & Slavtchev, V. (2023). Import competition and firm productivity: Evidence from German manufacturing. Forthcoming in World Economy.
Mertens, M., & Mueller, S. (2022). The East-West German gap in revenue productivity: Just a tale of output prices?. Journal of Comparative Economics, 50(3), 815-831.
Mertens, M. (2022). Micro-mechanisms behind declining labor shares: Rising market power and changing modes of production. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 81, 102808.
Mertens, M. (2020). Labor market power and the distorting effects of international trade. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 68, 102562.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Biondi, F., Inferrera, S., Mertens, M., & Miranda J. (2024). Declining business dynamism in Europe: The role of shocks, market power, and responsiveness. Vox.EU Column 21st March 2024.
Di Mauro, F., Mertens, M., & Mottironi, B. (2023). Sources of large firms’ market power and why it matters. Vox.EU Column 17th January 2023.
Müller, S. & M. Mertens (2022), Wirtschaftliche Folgen des Gaspreisanstiegs für die deutsche Industrie, Expertise für den Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung 4/2022, Wiesbaden
Mertens, M. (2022). Fallende Lohnquoten: Die Rolle von Technologie und Marktmacht. Wirtschaft im Wandel, 28(2), 32-35.
Mertens, M., & Müller, S. (2022). Die Ost-West-Produktivitätslücke: Die Rolle von Produktspezialisierung, Produktpreisunterschieden und physischer Produktivität. Wirtschaft im Wandel, 28(1), 6-9.
Dettmann, E., Diegmann, A., Mertens, M., Müller, S., Plümpe, V., Leber, U., & Schwengler, B. (2021). Die deutsche Wirtschaft in der Pandemie: Ergebnisse aus dem IAB-Betriebspanel 2020. IAB-Forschungsbericht No. 11/2021
Bighelli, T., di Mauro, F., Melitz, M., & Mertens, M. (2020). Increasing market concentration in Europe is more likely to be a sign of strength than a cause for concern. VoxEU. org, 13.
CompNet (2020). Firm Productivity Report. Technical report of the Competitiveness Research Network.
López-Garcia, P., Aglio, D., Bräuer, R., Haug, P., van der Kerke, J. P., Mertens, M., Sartori, R. Serafini, A. C. Soares, & Mattioli, A. Z. (2018). CompNet’s 6th vintage of data: Novelties and main stylised facts. The Competitiveness Research Network, 6th vintage data Report.
E. A. Tafti, R. Bräuer, S. De Pinto, M. Grazioli, Mertens, M., D. Stölker, & M. Tagliabue (2016). European Firms after the Crisis – New insights from the 5th vintage of the CompNet firm-level-based database. The Competitiveness Research Network, 5th vintage data Report.

BOOKS

"Die Wirkungen von Handelsliberalisierungen: Ein Vergleich zwischen dem Melitz-Ansatz und der endogenen Wachstumstheorie", Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2017