In many countries, betting in sports is highly regulated. In Germany, however, there are current debates whether regulation should be loosened. A crucial part of the argument is that sport bets could be qualified as "games of skill" that are considered to be less dangerous by German Law than...

The paper deals with the complexity of legal norms and the instrument the German constitutional law establishes to control it, namely the requirement of normative clarity. First, I introduce a definition of complexity of written legal norms, conceptualized by their density (number of items to be...

Classic behavioral decision research has intensively explored deliberate processes in decision making. Accordingly, individuals are viewed as bounded rational actors who, because of cognitive limitations, use simple heuristics that are successful in certain environments. In this chapter, it is...

Die Rechnungslegung deutscher Gebietskörperschaften gibt ein äußerst heterogenes Bild ab. Zugleich erfordern die auf europäischer Ebene diskutierten Reformen ein neues Bewusstsein über die notwendigen Spezifika der (deutschen) öffentlichen Rechnungslegung. Losgelöst vom bestehenden...