Organizations are faced with competitive and changeable environments whichdemand more prepared employees to successfully cope with these current and futurechallenges (Oswick, Grant, Michelson, and Wailes, 2005). Organizations, as a way to copewith more hostile environments, may foster individual...

The thesis acknowledges that in many law enforcement situations more than two types of actors are involved. It analyzes three different scenarios each adding a distinct third type of actor to the standard economic model of regulatory monitoring and enforcement.The first part considers citizens...

Introducing the concept of innovation capital we will analyse conditions under which a national industry is able to succeed in international Schumpeterian competition. Then we will discuss the significance of this concept for the economic development of the German plastics industry from the...

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...

Game theoretic modeling involves making assumptions on agents' infinite hierarchies of beliefs. These assumptions are understood to be only approximately satisfied in the actual situation. Thus, the significance of game theoretic predictions depend on robustness properties of the solution...

I present a simple model of intra-household allocation between spouses to show that when the quantity of resources available to the household is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation of the additional resources increases bargaining power. From...

There is evidence that some multi-person households may withhold income transfers, such as bonuses, gifts, and cash transfers, from other members of the household (Ashraf (2009); Vogler and Pahl, (1994)). In this paper, I show that the incentives to hide income under incomplete information...

In dieser Dissertation untersuchen wir die Terminstruktur der Kreditspreads auf Unternehmensanleihen bei korrelierten Unternehmensausfällen und asymmetrischer Information. Ausfallabhängigkeiten haben eine Reihe von Ursachen. Emittenten können durch direkte Beziehungen wie...

Diese Dissertation setzt sich aus fünf Forschungspapieren zusammen. Jedes Kapitel enthält ein Papier. Das erste Kapitel untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Größe des Kundenstamms einer Firma und ihrem Gewinn in einem Markt mit Wechselkosten. Entgegen unserer Intuition wird gezeigt, dass...

Die traditionell betriebene Konjunkturtheorie versucht aggregierte Schwankungen der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität unter der Prämisse vollkommener Kapitalmärkte zu erklären. Die Rolle von Kapitalmarktunvollkommenheiten bleibt in solchen Modellen unberücksichtigt. An diesem Theoriedefizit setzt...