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.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 …
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The dissertation highlights different topics of equity trading in limit order books using the example of Deutsche Boerse's electronic trading system XETRA. The first introductory chapter is a straight forward discussion of the profitability of exchange trading for both the exchange operator and...
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This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read independently, although there is a certain connection between the articles. Chapter 2, which deals with moral hazard, and chapter 3, which is on oligopolistic models in the...
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for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … modeling the questions of interest throughout the remaining chapters. Chapters 3 and 4 study the incentives of individuals to … how much information to reveal and how precise it should be. Chapter 5 is devoted to the incentives for monitoring from …
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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Basierend auf den Perspektiven, wie Netzwerke Sozialkapital schaffen, analysiert diese Arbeit die Positionen, die Venture Capital Gesellschaften (VCG) in ihrem Syndizierungsnetzwerk innehaben und bestimmt die Auswirkung von Netzwerkpositionen auf die Deal Flow Quantität und Qualität. Der...
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Unter Schlagzeilen wie "Venture Capital - Treibstoff für Traumrenditen", "Die neue Gründerzeit" oder "Geld wie Heu" hat sich die Wirtschaftspresse mit dem Phänomen einer neuen Gründerwelle befasst, die nach den USA nun auch Europa erfasst hat. Venture Capital (VC) oder Wagniskapital spielt...
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This dissertation comprises five different stand-alone research papers that were written as part of the doctoral program in “Quantitative Economics and Finance” at the University of Konstanz within the period of January 2004 and January 2008. All of the papers deal with an empirical analysis...
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The purpose of this thesis, which is entitled 'Bioentrepreneurship in Germany', is to study important issues of entrepreneurship research in the specific context of the biotechnology industry. The thesis consists of five empirical studies which cover such diverse topics as financing strategies,...
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