Facing a stochastic market wage, which is independent of their own hiring policy, employers offer contracts specifying ï¬xed wage, revenue share and employment duration. In ongoing employment relations it depends on the treatment whether ï¬xed wages can be only increased or also decreased....

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...

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...

Absentmindedness is a special case of imperfect recall which according to Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) leads to time inconsistencies. Aumann, Hart and Perry (1997a) question their argument and show how dynamic inconsistencies can be resolved. The present paper explores this issue from a...

The question whether a minimum rate of sick pay should be mandated is much debated. We study the effects of this kind of intervention in an experimental labor market that is rich enough to allow for moral hazard, adverse selection, and crowding out of good intentions to occur. We find that...

We identify the causal effect of cognitive abilities on economic behavior in an experimental setting. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance, while also accounting for the effect of other...

We report threshold public good experiments in which group members not only need to be individually willing to contribute enough to provide the public good but also have to agree with each other on what every group members should contribute. We find strong support to the hypothesis that full...