Am 12. Oktober 2004 wurde das European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) in einem feierlichen Gründungsakt ins Leben gerufen. In der Feierstunde im Schloss der Universität Münster haben Vertreter der Universität, der Politik, der Verwaltung und von Unternehmen ihre Visionen...

Voting is a natural context to investigate how democratic societies balance claims of economic efficiency against claims of distributive equity. We examine data from a series of simple experimental voting games; in each, voters are confronted with two distributional policies, one that promotes...

What we now label as "fair behavior" often differs from philopsophical norions of the concept. Establishing a clear understanding of the empirical nature of fairness is important if we are to gauge teh impact fairness has on economic and political institutions.[...]

Several current social utility models posit fairness as a motive for certain types of strategic behavior. The models differ sharply with respect to how fairness is measured. Distribution models measure fairness in terms of relative payoff comparisons. Reciprocal-kindness models measure fairness...