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Versicherungsbetrug als ökonomisches Problem: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
Schiller, Jörg - Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Universität Hamburg - 2004
Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten …
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Tipping the Scales – Conciliation, Appeal and the Relevance of Judicial Ambition
Christmann, Robin - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2013
Judges become ambitious decision makers when they face appellate review. This paper applies a contract theoretic perspective to the behavior of self-interested trial judges in a two-level court system and analyzes the consequences for contracting in “the shadow of” the court. Confronted with...
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Audit contracts and reputation
Portilla, Yolanda - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2009
management and the audit effort are decreasing over time because the incentives to build a reputation also decline for both …
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Fraud and free riding in tropical forests – on the potential for certification to enforce sustainable resource use indirectly
Lippert, Christian - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (2009) 3
Certification schemes for forest products are understood by many as a way to promote sustainable resource use when it is impossible to rely on direct enforcement of process standards. Based on the concept of ‘Self-Enforcing Contracts’, this study develops a market model that simulates the...
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Die Reputation der Fleischwirtschaft: eine Kausalanalyse
Albersmeier, Friederike; Spiller, Achim - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59 (2010) 4
Arbeit die Reputation der Fleischwirtschaft umfassend untersucht. Unter Verwendung der Partial Least Squares Methode (PLS …) von untergeordneter Relevanz sind. Die Analysen verdeutlichen die große Bedeutung der Reputation zur Erklärung … vegetarians in the population. In order to investigate the extent of these difficulties, this study analyses the reputation of the …
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Incomplete contract, bargaining and optimal divisional structure
Bao, Te; Wang, Yongqin - In: Journal of Economics 107 (2012) 1, pp. 81-96
When complete contracting is not possible, allocating control structure becomes the second-best arrangement. This paper analyzes the design of optimal divisional structure within an organization where ex post bargaining between the potential divisional managers is possible. In much the same...
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Offshoring, trade and environmental policies: Effects of transboundary pollution
Kawata, Keisuke; Ouchida, Yasunori - Graduate School for International Development and … - 2013
This study develops a two-country model, Home and Foreign, with offshoring and environmental spillover. A final good producer in Home can produce (homogeneous) final goods using customized inputs produced by its partner-supplier in Foreign. The intermediate input price is determined by Nash...
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Number of Bidders and the Winner’s Curse in Toll Road Concessions: An Empirical Analysis
Athias, Laure; Nuñez, Antonio - Fachgebiet Wirtschafts- und Infrastukturpolitik (WIP), … - 2006
In this paper, we empirically assess the effects of the winner’s curse in auctions for road concession contracts. Such auctions are private- and common-value auctions, and they are on concession contracts which are incomplete contracts prone to pervasive renegotiations (Guasch 2004, Engel...
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Firms' organizational modes with productivity heterogeneity, demand uncertainty and production capacity
Sun, Churen; Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates how firms' demand uncertainty with capacity constraints and their productivity heterogeneity affect their making-or-buying organizational choices in a general equilibrium framework with incomplete contracts. It shows that a final-good producer may adopt integrating a part...
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Author ordering in scientific research: evidence from scientists survey in the US and Japan
Nagaoka, Sadao; Owan, Hideo - Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2014
This paper examines what drives author ordering in scientific research. We first discussa theoretical framework for the choice between alphabetical ordering and relative-contribution-based ordering and develop hypotheses, focusing on the nature of research, in particular, the importance of...
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