Dieser Beitrag analysiert die geplante und zum Teil schon verwirklichte Reform des Gesetzes über Arbeitnehmererfindungen (ArbEG). Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse stehen die Vergütungen, die Arbeitgeber an einen Mitarbeiter zu zahlen haben, wenn sie dessen Erfindung in Anspruch nehmen. Bisher wurde...

The theory of competition as a discovery procedure argues that the results of this procedure cannot be predicted because of its very nature as a discovery procedure. If this were true, this would imply the impossibilty of testing whether competition actually works as predicted. This article...

The laws on codetermination in Germany provide enormous rights for employees to control and influence the decisions of firms. This weakens the owners' property rights, which, however, is not necessarily inefficient. Codetermination can be seen as a safeguard against opportunistic exploitation of...

The paper defines "order" as constraints that are designed or spontaneously evolved to constrain human action sets in order to stabilze expectations, and therefore enhance coordination of interactive behavior. A simple model of evolutionary game theory is used to explain the evolution of...

This paper analyzes "property rights" from a Law and Economics viewpoint. It deals with the relation between "property rights" and allocative efficiency as well as with the protection of "property rights" through damages, liability rules or criminal law. Moreover, market failures (monopoly,...

The churches in Germany are analyzed as multiproduct firms. Even though these enterprises raise their revenues in part through the tax system, they find themselves in a crisis: the number of customers is persistently decreasing. Starting with the idea that salvation is a scarce economic good,...