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An experimental contribution to the revision of the guidelines on research and development agreements
Engel, Christoph - 2010
The European Commission is working on a revision of its Guidelines on Research and Development Agreements. On this occasion, this note surveys the existing experimental evidence. Experiments add a number of additional arguments to the normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286728
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
In major legal orders such as UK, the U.S., Germany, and France, bribers and recipients face equally severe criminal sanctions. In contrast, countries like China, Russia, and Japan treat the briber more mildly. Given these differences between symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286689
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
In major legal orders such as UK, the U.S., Germany, and France, bribers and recipients face equally severe criminal sanctions. In contrast, countries like China, Russia, and Japan treat the briber more mildly. Given these differences between symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487845
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Verhandelter Netzzugang
Engel, Christoph - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582896
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
threat with antitrust intervention, gains from cooperation are uncertain. In the field, both qualifications combine. To … prevent participants from using their world knowledge about antitrust, we experimentally test them on a neutral matrix game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281843
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
threat with antitrust intervention, gains from cooperation are uncertain. In the field, both qualifications combine. To … prevent participants from using their world knowledge about antitrust, we experimentally test them on a neutral matrix game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822475
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Competition policy and sector-specific regulation for network industries
Hellwig, Martin - 2008
The paper discusses the respective roles of competition policy and sector-specific regulation for industries such as … when competition policy and to sector-specific regulation apply to a given industry at the same time. The discussion refers … parts of the industry should be subject to regulation, and (iii) the recent cases in the telecommunications and postal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861816
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Incomplete contracts and excludable public goods
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2010
We study the provision of an excludable public good to discuss whether the imposition of participation constraints is desirable. It is shown that this question may equivalently be cast as follows: should a firm that produces a public good receive tax revenues, or face a self-financing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266956
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On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2009
The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266972
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Prices versus quantities in electricity generation
Hahmeier, Mark - 2009
optimal regulation in each regime and shows that, in the presence of market power in the gas market, taxes rather than permits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266979