"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...

Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist die These, dass der unternehmerische Mittelstand durch Veränderungen des Wettbewerbsumfelds und durch steigende Wettbewerbsintensität in deutlich stärkerem Maße zu strategischen und in der Folge strukturellen Anpassungen gezwungen sein wird. Die Betrachtung...

In this thesis, we theoretically and experimentally analyze three aspects of labor markets. We first ask whether the introduction of a minimum wage not only increases the wages of workers who previously earned less than this minimum wage, but also of those who earned considerably more already....

We analyze a model of Internet auctions. Sellers each offer one item of a heterogeneous good to bidders who have unit-demand preferences. Items are sold in second-price proxy auctions. We derive a perfect Bayesian (epsilon-) equilibrium. Our experimental findings support the theoretical results....