We present a simple classroom principal-agent experiment that can effectively be used as a teaching device to introduce important concepts of organizational economics and contracting. In a first part, students take the role of a principal and design a contract that consists of a fixed payment...

This paper addresses the relevance of the bank lending channel in the transmission of monetary policy in Germany on the basis of a structural vector error correction model (VECM). In order to deal with the fundamental problem of identification we use restriction tests on cointegration vectors to...

Agent based models take into account limited rational behaviour of individuals acting on financial markets. Explicit simulation of this behaviour and the resulting interaction of individuals provide a description of aggregate financial market time series. Although the outcomes of such...

Index tracking aims at replicating a given benchmark with a smaller number of its constituents. Different quantitative models cam be set up to determine the optimal index replicating portfolio.In this paper, we propose an alternative based on imposing a constraint on the q-norm, 0 q 1, of the...

Index tracking aims at replicating a given benchmark with a smaller number of its constituents. Different quantitative models can be set up to determine the optimal index replicating portfolio. In this paper, we propose an alternative based on imposing a constraint on the <italic>q</italic>-norm (0 <italic>q</italic> 1) of the...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die vom Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in einem Gutachten vorgeschlagene ökologische Steuerreform einer kritischen Würdigung unterzogen. Die Untersuchung richtet sich zunächst auf das der positiven Analyse zugrundeliegende methodische Vorgehen und...

Gegenstand dieses Beitrags ist die aktuelle und aufgrund der Integration des Staatssektors und des Kreditmarktes nun vollständige Version des Konstanzer aggregierten Ungleichgewichtsmodells für die westdeutsche Volkswirtschaft für den Zeitraum von 1960 bis 1994. Nach einem kurzen Überblick...