Pro-social and ethical behavior primarily understood as the ability to sacrifice ones own interest to the benefit of others leads to welfare improvements and social progress, whereas anti-social and unethical actions result in irrevocable welfare losses and destruction. This dissertation...

Corporate scandals are reflected in excessive top management compensation and fraudulent accounts. These scandals cause an enormous amount of damage, not only to the companies affected, but also to the market economy as a whole. As a solution, conventional wisdom suggests more monitoring and...

This Paper studies the consequences of price discrimination in a market for experts’ services. In the case of experts markets, where the expert observes the intervention that a consumer needs to fix his problem and also provides a treatment, price discrimination proceeds along the dimension of...

Diese Arbeit mit dem Titel Decision Making in Innovation and Entrepreneurship A Collection of Conjoint-based Studies beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Themenbereichen der Kognition, Entscheidungsfindung und des Engagements im innovativen und unternehmerischen Umfeld. Die Conjoint-Analyse...

Die vorliegende Dissertation widmet sich mit Hilfe kontrollierter Laborexperimente der übergeordneten Frage, wie menschliche Kooperation in Situationen ermöglicht werden kann, in denen die materiellen Anreize egoistisches, nicht gruppendienliches Verhalten begünstigen. Diese Frage wird in der...