In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

This paper analyses the quality provision of interrelated market firms under different market structures both theoretically and empirically. A theoretical model is built, where a media firm offers newspapers in a primary market and advertising space in the secondary market. Furthermore, the...

Die jüngere Vergangenheit zeugt von turbulenten Entwicklungen an den deutschen Aktienbörsen. Von einer aufkeimenden Aktienkultur, die ihr Vorbild in den USA sah, über Schwindel erregende Kursbewegungen, plötzlichen Reichtum aufgrund von hohen Aktienkursen, Insolvenzen, Kursbetrügereien bis...