Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this concept is aimed to be operable on observable data. In...

A large part of the theoretical tournament literature argues that rank-order tournaments only unfold their incentive effects if the contestants all have similar prospects of winning. In heterogeneous fields, the outcome of the tournament is relatively clear and the contestants reduce their...

Den Workshop Hochschulmanagement der wissenschaftlichen Kommission Hochschulmanagement im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB) gibt es seit 20 Jahren. Es werden die Orte der 20 Workshops dargestellt, die Zahl der Vorträge, ihre Themen und Autoren sowie daraus resultierende...

We perform a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of transfer fee regulations on professional soccer in Europe. Based on a model on the interaction of moral hazard and heterogeneity, we show (i) how the regulations effect contract durations and wages, (ii) that contracting parties...

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from different countries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in...

Die paritätische Mitbestimmung gibt es in Deutschland mittlerweile seit 30 Jahren. Demnächst soll eine Kommission Vorschläge zu ihrer Modernisierung und Anpassung an EU-Regelungen unterbreiten. Welche Vor- und Nachteile hat die Mitbestimmung aus theoretischer Sicht? Welche Wirkungen sind auf...