-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial …

experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we …

the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …

-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents? behavior is not only guided by …

coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Additionally, we find that even in …

benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen … (1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage …