We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in...

Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...

This experimental study investigates two bargaining games with twosided incomplete information between a seller and a buyer. In the first game with no outside options many subjects do not use the incomplete information to their advantage as predicted. We find that a model with adjusting priors...

The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China. It discusses a number of topics, including the history and the modernization of special economic zones in China, the contributions of special...

The book provides detailed descriptions, including more than 550 mathematical formulas, for more than 150 trading strategies across a host of asset classes and trading styles. These include stocks, options, fixed income, futures, ETFs, indexes, commodities, foreign exchange, convertibles,...

Jan Mayer erläutert die zentralen Elemente erfolgreicher Führung im Bereich des Trainings von Spitzensportlern und -mannschaften. Der Trainer im Spitzensport hat eine sehr spezielle Rolle - sein Erfolg wird ausschließlich über den Erfolg des Sportlers oder der Mannschaft definiert. Dieses...

Die Neukundenakquisition und das Kundenbindungsmanagement sind in zahlreichen Branchen von Prämien zur Gewinnung von neuen bzw. Bindung von bestehenden Kunden geprägt. Immer mehr Kunden nutzen mittlerweile das Instrument Kündigung, um bessere Vertragskonditionen und Prämien verhandeln zu...