Jensen/Mecklings Konzept der Agency Costs (des Fremdkapitals) beschreibt die Vermögenseinbuße opportunistisch agierender Schuldner, wenn rationale Gläubiger (fremdkapitalinduzierte) Risikoanreize korrekt antizipieren und, risikoadjustiert, höhere Kreditforderungen durchsetzen. Dabei wird...

Die deutsche Wohnungswirtschaft unterliegt einer tiefgreifenden staatlichen Regulierung. Hiervon sind insbesondere Heizungsanlagen betroffen. Durch die vorgeschriebene Aufteilung in Kaltmiete und Nebenkosten stellt sich die Investition in eine neue, effiziente Heizungsanlage für den Vermieter...

During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice tradition - and, indirectly, of behaviorism - we...

Global environmental protection is characterized as a public good. In contrast to the national level where the state is able to regulate external effects, there is a lack of supranational institutions which have enough power to force countries to reduce pollution levels. In spite of the...

We present results from a series of experiments that allow us to measure overbidding and, in particular, underbidding in first-price auctions. We investigate how the amount of underbidding depends on seemingly innocent parameters of the experimental setup. To structure our data we present and...

Concessions try to avoid conflict in bargaining and can finally lead to an agreement. Although they usually are seen as unfolding in time, concessions can also be studied in normal form or by conditioning only on failure of earlier agreement attempts. We experimentally compare three protocols of...

Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner's Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a...