This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …

comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …

for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R … Investitionsverhalten nicht eindeutig. In dieser Studie analysieren wir empirisch, wie Wettbewerb und Unternehmensgröße einen möglichen …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the …

This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of … long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar … within the system of social insurances in Germany and its set-up with regard to eligibility criteria, service provision and …

tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk … fundamentally from previously found patterns. Agents did not self-select into the tournament scheme according to their creative … most creative agents into the tournament is that there exist substantial misjudgments of relative creative productivity …