We provide evidence suggesting that some hedge funds manipulate stock prices on critical reporting dates. Stocks in the top quartile of hedge fund holdings exhibit abnormal returns of 0.30% on the last day of the quarter and a reversal of 0.25% on the following day. A significant part of the...

"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...