Dies ist das 100. Diskussionspapier des Instituts für Organisationsökonomik. Für die ersten 100 Diskussionspapiere werden die behandelten Themengebiete, methodischen Ausrichtungen, Sprache, Länge, Autoren, nachfolgenden Veröffentlichungen in Zeitschriften und Büchern sowie Zitationen...

Economics in Sweden contains the results of one of the most comprehensive attempts to evaluate research in economics ever undertaken. A team of Swedish and international researchers, including Avinash K. Dixit, Seppo Honkapohja and Robert M. Slow, examined the structure of economics in Sweden...

Publikationen sind im Wissenschaftssystem das wesentliche Medium zur Kommunikation von Erkenntnissen und werden häufig als Indikator für wissenschaftliche Leistung herangezogen. Für Forschungsdatenzentren (FDZ) erfüllen Publikationen weitere Funktionen: Verknüpft mit den zugrundeliegenden...

While risk selection within the German public health insurance system has received considerable attention, risk selection between public and private health insurers has largely been ignored. This is surprising since - given the institutional structure - risk selection between systems is likely...

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...

This document provides an overview of the long-term care system, the number and develop-ment of beneficiaries and the long-term care policy in Germany. The report is part of the first stage of the European project ANCIEN (Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations), commissioned by the European...