In a controlled laboratory experiment, we investigate the effects of disclosing conflicts of interest on the reporting of information providers. First, we replicate the findings of Cain, Loewenstein, and Moore (2005) that such disclosure makes misreporting more likely as it removes moral...

National reductions of CO2 emissions as a way to manage unilaterally the use of global environmental resources can be interpreted as the noncooperative provision of an international public good. This paper analyses two basic sources of inefficiency if countries abate their emissions...

The paper analyzes international environmental agreements that incorporate transfers from a group of industrialized countries to developing countries in a situation of asymmetric information. The framework of the analysis is a static model of transboundary pollution in which information on...

The paper explores the prospects for international environmental cooperation in a context of limited enforcement, if we allow for side-payments between countries and sequential moves in the implementation of the agreement. The framework of the analysis is a static model of heterogenous countries...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht aufgrund einer erhöhten Regulierungstätigkeit in der Bilanzierung die nabhängigkeitsproblematik der Wirtschaftsprüfer aus dem Blickwinkel des ökonomischen Paradigmas.

Ziel der nachfolgenden Untersuchung ist die Darstellung desEntscheidungsverhalten von Wirtschaftsprüfern aus dem Blickwinkel des ökonomischen Paradigmas und hierauf aufbauend die Erklärung bestehender institutioneller Einrichtungen und die Ableitung normativer Empfehlungen auf dem Gebiet der...

In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German...

Intraday markets are crucial to balance supply and demand in the very short-term, up to delivery. They are often designed as continuous auctions with a pay-as-bid pricing mechanism. While several studies assess trading strategies to balance different types of portfolios, they normally do not...