'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 …

affected by many regulations by law, whichcontribute to a distortion of land prices offering incentives to convert wetlands …

.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … understanding of the incentives that underlie this prediction. "First, an extensive analysis of a game theoretic CPR model is … conducted. A distinction is made between two types of appropriation externalities: those that are restricted to a single period …

with economic incentives as generated by the market system and requires changes in the market institutions to implement … problem is consistent with the underlying economic order (market system), if economic incentives to solve the problem exist … collective action are not pecuniary, this implies that the activity is not consistent with market incentives and therefore …

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 … strategy. The auction is augmented to includeexplicitly the auctioneer's preferences over final outcomes. Externalities …

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … 'internalize' externalities. Positive externalities of natural resource conservation accrue at the local, national and global … important to identify what type of institutional arrangements can effectively align private and social incentives to promote …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …