In dieser Arbeit wird die Bedeutung von Kosten untersucht, die im Rahmen einer Konkurrenzanalyse von Wettbewerbsunternehmen erfasst werden können. Der Autor stellt zunächst unterschiedliche Instrumente und Quellen vor, aus denen Informationen über Konkurrenten zu gewinnen sind. Die Bedeutung...

We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth-telling and trust in sender-receiver games. We find that in an institution with sanctioning opportunities, receivers sanction predominantly after having trusted lies. Individuals who...

Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the determinants for efficiency in credence goods...