This paper develops a model in order to explore how a banks equity stake in a competitor of a borrower affects the financing relationship with the borrower and product market outcomes.

We compare the effect of legal and institutional competition for the design of labor institutions in an environment characterized by holdup problems in human and physical capital. We compare autarky with the two country case, assuming that capital is perfectly mobile and labor immobile. We...

Die Mehrfachverwertung vorhandener Inhalte (Content Syndication) ist ein inverschiedensten Bereichen der Medienbranche verbreitetes Konzept, um ausHerstellersicht Produktionskosten zu refinanzieren bzw. aus Sicht der Inhaltedistributorendie Akquisitionskosten des Inhalteangebots gering zu...

We propose an experimental design allowing a behavioral test of the axiom ofcompleteness of individual preferences. The central feature of our design consistsin enabling subjects to postpone commitment at a small cost. Our main result isthat preferences are significantly incomplete. We use...

This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averseindividuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is uncertain thanwhen it is certain. Our design includes three treatments: Baseline inwhich the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game is played; CertainPunishment in which the prisoner’s...

In the standard CAPM with a riskless asset we give a simple proof of existence of equilibria without assuming concavity of the investor's utility functions. Moreover, we give a uniqueness result using assumptions on the risk aversion of investors.

In the standard CAPM with a riskless asset we give a sufficient condition for uniqueness. This condition is a joint restriction on the agents´ endowments and their preferences which is compatible with non-increasing absolute risk aversion and which is inparticular satisfied with constant...

This paper analyzes optimal portfolio choice and consumption with stochastic volatility in incomplete markets.

This paper estimates a trivariate two-factor conditional version of the Intertemporal CAPM of Merton (1973).