Playing poker has many aspects in common with the making of business decisions. Agents act in a strategically rich, dynamic environment, where they are repeatedly facing competition under uncertain prospects. Their main goal is to maximize their resources. However simple this goal is put down,...

Seit Axiomatisierung der von Bernoulli (1738) in ersten Ansätzen vorgestellten Erwartungsnutzentheorie durch von Neumann und Morgenstern (1944) wurden zahlreiche Modelle und Theorien zur Risikobewertung entwickelt, um immer mehr Paradoxien (z.B. Allais 1953, Ellsberg 1961) erklären zu können,...

Klassische Geldbewertung unterstellt einen Zusammenhang zwischen Geld (x) und empfundener Geldbewertung über eine Funktion v(x) für x=0.In dieser Arbeit wird die "Fenstertheorie der emotionalen Wahrnehmung" von Albers als neuer Ansatz der Geldbewertung vorgestellt. Dieser unterstellt keine...

We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...

My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...

The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...

Grundlegene Aufgabe eines jeden Systems der Wohneigentumsfinanzierung ist, jenen Haushalten zu Wohneigentum zu verhelfen, die es wünschen und das so günstig wie möglich. In dieser Arbeit werden die Systeme in Europa am Beispiel der Länder Deutschland, Spanien und Großbritannien dargestellt...

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their transition to a market economy in Ukraine. In this case the efficiencyis calculated by data envelopment analysis and the productivity change is measured by theMalmquist...

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...