Nachdem in Deutschland über viele Jahre die Preise für die Fernsehrechte von populären Spitzensportveranstaltungen (insb. beim Fußball) und ebenso die Einkommen der Sportstars stark angestiegen sind, haben vor allem zwei Ereignisse bei der Brechung dieses Trends eine Rolle gespielt. Zum...

In der aktuellen Fußballberichterstattung ist oft von »modernem Fußball« die Rede. Es entsteht der Eindruck, dass eine bestimmte Spielweise den sportlichen Erfolg garantiert und anderen Strategien grundsätzlich überlegen ist. Aus der Perspektive der evolutionären Finanzwirtschaft kann zu...

"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

Motivated by recent disasters, this paper analyzes the risk sharing aspect in a federation. The regions can be hit by a shock leading to losses that occur with an exogenous probability and in a stochastically independent way. The regions can spend effort on selfinsurance to reduce the size of...

We investigate the incentives of manufacturers to use resale price maintenance (RPM) when selling products through common retailers. In our model retailers provide product specific pre-sales services. If the competitive retail margins are low, each manufacturer fixes a minimum price to induce...

Linking of repeated games and exchange of concessions in fields of relative strength may lead to more cooperation and to Pareto improvements relative to the situation where each game is played separately. In this paper we formalize these statements, provide some general results concerning the...

We analyze cooperative behavior in a prisoner's dilemma game with high stakes, face-to-face communication, and two rounds of pre-play in which the two final contestants are endogenously selected via a voting process. Using data from the British television game show 'Golden Balls', we find a...

The prospect of receiving a monetary sanction for free riding has been shown to increase contributions to public goods. We ask whether the impulse to punish is unresponsive to the cost to the punisher, or whether, like other preferences, it interacts with prices to generate a conventional demand...

Im folgenden wird zunächst an einem konkreten Beispiel illustriert, worin die Pointe der 'institutionellen Ergonomie' liegt. Anschließend wird das Gemeingutdilemma als ein wichtiges Problem für institutionelles Design vorgestellt. Anhand dieses Beispielproblems sollen dann alle weiteren...

In this article, a modelling framework for the information transmission between agents in an evolutionary game setting is proposed. Agents observe traits which reflect past and present behaviour and success of other agents. If agents imitate more successful agents based on these traits, the...