How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...

Ratings stehen derzeit im Brennpunkt der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit, vorrangig wegen der unter dem Schlagwort "Basel II" bekannt gewordenen Planungen des Basler Ausschusses für Bankenaufsicht. Bereits die ersten Fassungen der Konsultationspapiere haben für erhebliche Diskussionen gesorgt und...

Im Mittelpunkt der gerade auch von solchen "atypischen Unternehmen" nach wie vor geäußerten Ängste stehen die durch das Basler Gremium geforderten Ratingsysteme, wobei Beobachter der Diskussion den Eindruck gewinnen können, als wäre das Rating von Kreditnehmern etwas völlig Neuartiges....

In der vorliegenden Studie "Die Besteuerung gemeinnütziger Organisationen im internationalen Vergleich" wird in einem internationalen Vergleich dargelegt, wie die Besteuerung der gemeinnützigen Organisationen in den anderen EU-Ländern sowie Japan und den USA geregelt ist. Insbesondere werden...

Purpose: Corporate governance in essence is designed to lead to economic growth. Nevertheless, despite placing great emphasis on promoting corporate governance practices over the years, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have so far achieved insignificant or no economic growth. This, however,...

The report summarizes the conditions of the small and medium size enterprises (SME) sector in Georgia, identiies main problems in their development and provides recommendations for further interventions based on the Czech experience, research of existing literature and own survey among SME...

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...

Investment policy is a central issue in foundations. The capital stock of a foundation and its long-term retention are prerequisites of a foundation?s perpetuity and independence. A foundation?s goals can only be reached with the funds generated by the foundation?s investment management. Ever...