The Theory of the Second Best implies that any country with less-than-ideal resources can lose from international trade …

'public finance', 'political economy', 'growth theory', 'human capital theory', and 'innovation-driven growth theory …'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a …

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … conducted. A distinction is made between two types of appropriation externalities: those that are restricted to a single period …

for multiple units where bidders exhibitexternalities. The third chapter links risk aversion and information to unraveling … externalities, however, efficiency may no longer be guaranteed.This dissertation shows that a modification of Ausubel & Milgrom … presence of externalities, the resulting auction possessesan efficient Nash equilibrium in pure strategies leading to a core …

"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of … formation. As opposed to previous findings in the CPR literature we observe that full information disclosure significantly … changes individual behaviour and aggregate use of the common property. Groups that had complete information about other …

to collect, process, and share information about their own status and about their environment, has attained a high degree … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of … gain relevance. The comprehensiveness of collected pieces of information which can be stored arbitrarily long and …