Die Geschäftsstellen müssen für die Zeitspanne der Euro-Bargeld-Einführung(17.12.2001 bis 28.02.2002) mit einem deutlich höheren Kunden- und Transaktionsaufkommenim Kassengeschäft rechnen. Damit weder chaotische Zuständemit langen Warteschlangen noch hohe Zusatzkosten die Folgen sind,...

A set of agents with possibly different waiting costs have to receive the same service one after theother. Efficiency requires to maximize total welfare. Equity requires to at least treat equal agentsequally. One must form a queue, set up monetary transfers to compensate agents having to...

In this paper, we present a bounding methodology that allows to compute a tight lower boundon the cycle time of fork--join queueing networks with blocking and with general service timedistributions. The methodology relies on two ideas. First, probability masses fitting (PMF)discretizes the...

In recent years, the performance-based approach to contracting for medical services has been gaining popu-larity across different healthcare delivery systems, both in the US (under the name of "Pay-for-Performance",or P4P), and abroad ("Payment-by-Results", or PbR, in the UK). One common element...

This paper investigates the effects of monopolistic competition onentrepreneurial riskRtaking in a general equilibrium model. In thiscontext, occupational choice of risk averse agents is biased towardsfirm ownership. In this case, the inefficiencies due to the presence ofnondiversifiable risk...

...We rely on Matsuyama (1996, 1999) to study the effects on growth and welfareof non distortive tax/subsidy policies. In particular, we are interested ininvestigating the stabilising/destabilising effects of policies aimed at eliminatingeconomic fluctuations. The focus on stabilisation...

Seit über sechs Jahren ist der deutsche Strommarkt vollständig liberalisiert; Stromkunden könnenseither ihren Anbieter frei wählen, machen jedoch von dieser Möglichkeit nur seltenGebrauch – je nach EVU ist in Deutschland von einer Wechselquote im Bereich zwischen 2%und 5% auszugehen.1...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht, welche Lehren die Schweiz aus der Abschaffung der Pflicht- und Monopolanstalten (PMA) in der Gebäudeversicherung in Deutschland ziehen kann.

The successful deregulation of other network industries like telecommunications and electricity has put increasing pressure on governments to deregulate and liberalize letter markets.(...)