Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good economy and to cure the underprovision problem associated with private provision of public goods. The desired Pareto optimal interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only...

Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead, partial cooperation between like-minded countries appears a more likely outcome. In this paper we analyze the effects of such partial cooperation between like-minded countries. In...

Für jedes Unternehmen stellt sich die zentrale Frage, welche Wertschöpfungsaktivitäten es intern durchführt und welche Aktivitäten es extern am Markt bezieht. Im Gegensatz zu der in der Forschungsliteratur dominierenden Make-or-Buy-Logik widmet sich die vorliegende Arbeit der Frage, wie...