Die Schaffung gleichwertiger Lebensverhältnisse ist im Grundgesetz verankert und wird bisher primär aus sozioökonomischer Sicht bewertet. Allerdings spielt die Umwelt eine große Rolle für das menschliche Wohlbefinden. Zum Beispiel durch den Zugang zu und die Verfügbarkeit von Freiflächen...

Building up sufficient capital for old-age provision often is a challenge for private households. For homeowners, one way to generate old-age income from illiquid housing wealth is the use of equity release products such as home reversion plans or reverse mortgages. However, in Germany the...

Many decisions in politics and business are made by teams rather than by single individuals. In contrast, economic models typically assume an individual rational decision maker. A rapidly growing body of (experimental) literature investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team...

We document an increasing capacity to resist temptation in a time consistent manner from children to teenagers. Competencies develop in two steps: From age 8 on many pupils naively plan and after age 12 successfully implement strategies to resist temptation. Our evidence comes from a food choice...

Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...

Die Arbeit analysiert die Institutionalisierung von Programmevaluationen innerhalb der Zweiten Säule der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU mit Hilfe des Institutional Analysis and Development Frame von Elinor Ostrom. Untersuchungsschwerpunkte sind die Praxis der Durchführung der Evaluationen und...

A central question in climate policy is whether early investments in low-carbon technologies are a useful first step towards a more effective climate agreement in the future. We introduce a climate cooperation model with endogenous R&D investments where countries protect their international...

This paper surveys the rapidly growing theoretical literature on international environmental agreements. The surveyed contributions are classified according to the conceivable strategies to create incentives for the participation in and compliance with environmental conventions. The proposed...