Tradable development rights (TDR) are discussed as a mechanism to reduce land consumption while ensuring an efficient implementation of profitable building projects. We present a novel laboratory experiment on the feasibility of TDR and simulate the acquisition and trading of development rights....

Tradable development rights (TDR) are discussed as a means of containing urban sprawl in numerous countries. Despite its theoretical superiority in ensuring an efficient redistribution of planning rights, its applicability is concerned with several open questions and potential problems....

Reputational herding has been considered as a driving force behind economic and financial forecasts clustered around consensus values. Strategic coordination can consequently explain poor performances of prediction markets as resulting from the distinct incentives that forecasters face. While...

Markets for expert services are characterized by information asymmetries between experts and consumers. We analyze the effects of consumer information, where consumers suffer from either a minor or serious problem and only experts can infer the appropriate treatment. Consumer information is a...

Diese Studie zeigt am Beispiel von Südniedersachsen, wie mit der Methodik des Webscrapings effizient Informationen zu regionalen Akteuren wie Forschungseinrichtungen und Unternehmen gewonnen werden können. Webscraping beschreibt das systematische Auslesen der Inhalte von Webseiten und deren...

Ziel der vorliegenden Webscraping-Analyse ist es, für die Betriebs- und Organisationslandschaft der Region Hannover sowie der Landkreise Hildesheim und Peine einen Überblick über die Relevanz innovativer Technologien und Konzepte zu geben. Hierfür werden die Websites ausgewertet und die...

Deutschland und alle anderen Länder der Welt stehen vor einer sich stetig verschärfenden Rohstoff- und Energiekrise, die erhebliche ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Auswirkungen hat, deren Folgen sich erst langsam abzeichnen und die kommenden Jahrzehnte prägen werden. Vor dem...

Certificate trading schemes have been discussed as a cost-efficient means of reducing land use in Germany by capping and reallocating permissions to conduct building projects. However, in contrast to the established cap & trade systems for emissions, reputation-seeking politicians would be in...

In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a sequential innovation process. We use this task to...

In an experiment on moral cleansing with an endogenously manipulated moral self-image, we examine the relevance of the addressee of an immoral action. The treatments differ such that cheating on a die roll reduces either the experimenter´s or another subject´s payoff. We find that cheating is...