How does scarcity affect individual willingness to share and willingness to enforce sharing from others? Sharing in poor communities gains importance as an insurance mechanism during adverse shocks, yet shocks make it costlier to share. I conducted repeated economic experiments in both a lean...

Innovation is considered as a main driver of economic growth. Promoting the development of innovation through STI (science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack coverage, granularity as well as timeliness and involve...

Wissen über wissenschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Sachverhalte ist auch medial vermittelt. Nur die wenigsten Menschen haben persönliche Kontakte mit Personen, die in Spitzenpositionen von Wissenschafts- oder Wirtschaftsorganisationen tätig sind. Für große Teile der Öffentlichkeit entsteht...

A key benefit of using car sharing services (relative to car ownership) is that they are more cost effective. Car sharing firms offer a menu of pricing plans to make this happen. The two most common plans are flat-rate and pay-per-use pricing. However, little is known about how consumers choose...