.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 …

newly founded ventures are started by teams (Ruef, Aldrich, and Carter, 2003). The literature on organizational and team … behavior acknowledges the importance of team composition for business outcomes. The complex interactions among team members … affect the behavior of each individual team member and therefore the performance of the team as a whole (e.g. Williams and O …

that were not best for the long term success of the company. Mortgage companies gave financial incentives to brokers for … company, gave financial incentives to employees based on short-term profits, which motivated management to perform cheaper and …-term success of their company. I have seen incentives for delivering a project on time influence project managers and developers to …

with economic incentives as generated by the market system and requires changes in the market institutions to implement … problem is consistent with the underlying economic order (market system), if economic incentives to solve the problem exist … collective action are not pecuniary, this implies that the activity is not consistent with market incentives and therefore …

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … important to identify what type of institutional arrangements can effectively align private and social incentives to promote … ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

likelihood solutions with confidence limits. As a test case, the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected) was fitted with the … sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …

preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …