'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 …

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j … until very recently did not deal with economic theory. This applies in particular to the investigation of the role media can …

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 …

networks and firm performance. Specifically, I use resource dependence theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) and social capital … theory (Burt, 1980b; Coleman, 1988) as the basis for a new measure of a board’s opportunity network. I contend that both …

firms are associated with the quality of earnings information. Based on a review of agency and institutional theory, this …

corporate governance in smaller firms. Based on a review of agency theory literature, a theoretical model is developed that …