Many critical goods and services in modern-day economies are producedand distributed through complex institutional arrangements. Agent-based computationaleconomics (ACE) modeling tools are capable of handling this degree of complexity.In concrete support of this claim, this study presents an ACE...

In April 2003 the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed a complicated marketdesign – the Wholesale Power Market Platform (WPMP) – for common adoption byall U.S. wholesale power markets. Versions of the WPMP have been implemented in NewEngland, New York, the mid-Atlantic states,...

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In order to con¯ne excessive levels of temporary layo®s, US ¯rms are taxed - albeit incom-pletely - according to the unemployment insurance bene¯ts claimed by their laid o® workers.In contrast, German construction ¯rms are not charged according to their layo® historyand should thus have...

In this paper the authors want to analyse the connection between organisational structure and the performance (efficiency) of the members of the organisation, especially german universities.