Abstract: Im Mittelpunkt des Werkes steht die Suche nach einer angemessenen Erklärung des Underpricing von Aktienerstemissionen. Eine ausführliche Analyse bestehender Modelle zeigt eine Vorherrschaft formaler Gleichgewichtskonzepte der neoklassischen Informationsökonomie. Keiner der aktuellen...

Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...

The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also redistribute in favor of more "deserving" workers. The risk is that it may also reduce output. The more...

We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our framework allows us to jointly analyse the effects of various taxes and benefits on incentives for firms and workers to be informal and evade taxation. We find that payroll taxes and...