The paper presents an economic explanation of country-specific higher education patterns among topmanagers based on a signaling approach. Starting from Ar-row's hypothesis that higher education functions as a filter for human capital, we discuss three alternative filter-designs, which can be...

Der Beitrag widmet sich der Frage, ob der Markt für feine Bordeauxweineinformationseffizient ist. Wir finden deutliche Hinweise dafür, dass der Markt für die von uns untersuchten Weine nicht informationseffizient ist.

Due to specific production conditions consultancies have advantages overfirms from other industries in assessing the quality of human capital. But only topmanagementconsulting firms will economize on these advantages by offering filtering services to the labor market .

Which are the basic strategic options of young scientists in the process of scientific competition? Which are the basic structural conditions influencing the outcome of strategic actions? What strategic choices should be made depending on given structural conditions? In thispaper we approach...