Die Beteiligung von Standortkommunen an der Wertschöpfung aus Windkraftanlagen ist ein wichtiger Schritt hin zu einer gerechten, gesellschaftsverträglichen Umsetzung der Energiewende. Ländliche Gemeinden können finanziell profitieren und die Akzeptanz unter den Anwohnenden kann gefördert...

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...

Die strategische Herausforderung für die Soziale Marktwirtschaft zeigt sich im politischen Diskurs der Gesellschaft zunächst darin, dass die zu lösenden Probleme scheinbar aus den Begriffen ausgewandert sind, mit denen diese beschrieben und dann einer gesellschaftlichen Lösung zugänglich...

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...

In social dilemmas, there is tension between cooperation that promotes the common good and the pursuit of individual interests. International climate change negotiations provide one example: although abatement costs are borne by individual countries, the benefits are shared globally. We study a...

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...

We use a two-person public goods experiment to distinguish between effciency and fairness as possible motivations for cooperative behavior. Asymmetric marginal per capita returns allow only the high-productivity player to increase group payoffs when contributing positive amounts. Asymmetric...

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon the behaviour of others. However, few attempts have been made to disentangle the motivations backing conditional cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three...

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...