Für Investitionen am Kapitalmarkt spielt die Portfoliotheorie (Markowitz, 1952) eine bedeutende Rolle und bildet nach wie vor eine wichtige Entscheidungsgrundlage für die Strukturierung von Anlageportfolios. Für risikoaverse Anleger ist die Diversifikation der Portfoliobestandteile eine...

The question to what extent social environment affects how individuals govern their groups, has received no special academic attention, yet. Within the framework of a ten-period public goods experi&ment we analyse how social identity affects subjects ́choice of punishment: They may either...

Traditionally economic theory assumes that preferences are stable facilitating positive predictions of economic policy. While there is conflicting experimental evidence on the temporal stability of cooperation preferences in public goods provision, surprisingly little is known about their...