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Discusses incentives for basic research, which were recently introduced in the German Institute for Economic Research, including both team and individual incentives. Possible problems arise from focussing on the measurable, crowding out intrinsic motivation and undesirable externalities....
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Economic page turners like <italic>Freakonomics</italic> are well written and there is much to be learned from them -- not only about economics, but also about writing techniques. Their authors know how to build up suspense, i.e., they make readers want to know what comes. An uncountable number of pages in books...
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In order to profit from China’s enormous business opportunities, international firms need to know Chinese consumer preferences. To learn more about intrinsic Chinese consumer preferences and their distinction from other Asian consumer preferences, this study analyzes differences in the...
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Wir untersuchen die Determinanten der regionalen sektoralen Konzentration filmbezogener Dienstleistungen (wie Kameraverleih, Castingagenturen oder Pyrotechnik). Unser Hauptinteresse gilt dabei der Humankapitalspezifität, die auf zwei einander entgegengesetzte Weisen die Standortwahl...
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An important concern of experimenters is that instructorsʹ nonverbal cues might change subject behavior. We let a professional actor try to produce this bias on purpose, finding only weak evidence for an "instructor demand effect", and only for female subjects.
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Der internationale Wettbewerb in der Wissenschaft wird sich in Zukunft weiter verschärfen. Zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in Deutschland plädiert Prof. Dr. Klaus Landfried, Präsident der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, für eine ausgewogene Mischung zwischen Marktorientierung...
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Das DIW Berlin hat die räumliche Entwicklung der Medienwirtschaft und der Produktion von Informationstechnologie (IT) in Deutschland für den Zeitraum 1998 bis 2003 untersucht. Diese Branchen sind regional stark konzentriert; die führenden Standorte konnten ihre Position noch ausbauen - sowohl...
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Der vorliegende Bericht ergänzt den Kulturwirtschaftsbericht des Berliner Senats um weitere empirische Ergebnisse zu den Branchen Film, Rundfunk und Fernsehen, Verlage, Musik, Werbung, Softwareentwicklung und Multimedia, sonstige kulturelle Dienstleistungen sowie Museen u. a. Die Stärken...
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We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of public servants chose between whistleblowing, opportunism and reciprocity by delivery (of a contract) and those acting as businesspeople chose how to frame the game and whether to...
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Alain Ledoux, who was one of over 6,000 chess players taking part in Bühren and Frank´s (2012) online Beauty Contest experiment, turned out to be the forgotten inventor of that game. We reconstruct the birth of the Beauty Contest. In section 1 of our note, its first two authors outline the...
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